Response To Chuck Klosterman's 'Eating The Dinosaur'

As I read eating the Dinosaur written by Chuck Klosterman (precisely chapters 1 and 2), it just dawns on me that I have never really considered the reasons why people talk. More importantly, the book reveals the covert motives behind my communication with people. Suddenly I just realized that there is more to humans’ conversations beyond the fact that they have well developed brains and have the capacity to express intelligible words. Part of the discovery I made was that the intentions of my mind when I communicate with people vary based on my mood at the time of the conversation, the environment, the kind of people I am conversing with, and my cognitive bias and preconceived notion. In this light, I agree with the concept of “Privileged access” credited to Enroll Morris by Klosterman. Enroll Morris believes that we do not have privileged access to our minds: we truly do not know who we are and that is why we engage in a seemingly endless battle of self-discovery (Klosterman, pg. 5). I absolutely agree with Morris because I found his assertion about the battle of self-discovery to be true in my personal experience.
They were asking me questions about how to secure college admission and how to apply for financial aid. For about fifteen minutes of our discussion, I did not realize that I was talking so vigorously because their questions created an opportunity for me to show my “superiority” over them. This realization dawn on me when one of my colleagues challenged a categorical point I made. Ironically, I discuss regularly about my college admission and courses with my wife, but I talk about it at home with entirely different motive. When am in the public, I usually do not talk so much, but most times I tend to dominate discussion when I appear to know more than others involved. I believe this applies to a lot of people also; we speak to show forth