January 18, 2015

January 18, 2015

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, a person living in the United States….

Dear Reader, 

 

This writer had a dream in which things were remembered and then again forgotten. It was not clear what things were remembered and which things were forgotten, but this writer figured there just wasn’t enough reinforcement to be able to remember what had been forgotten.

After rereading some of his writings this writer didn’t like them as much as while he was writing them. Obviously, there is a difference between writing and reading what he had written. Although the writing made the reading possible, the writer and the reader seem to be having a different behavioral history. The writer wants to keep on writing and this writing is also based on the fact that this writer finds it reinforcing to write. But, the reader is having a different opinion. He finds it not always very interesting. Sometimes he doesn’t want to read it, because he has already read it.

Today, this writer is thinking and writing about the dialogue he is having with the reader. Since he is mostly his own reader, he is commenting on what he has written. It seems to this writer that this process is very different from when a speaker is listening to him or herself. Speaking and listening happen simultaneously in Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB), but writing and reading are more likely to happen in succession. It happens that writing and reading come closer together at times, but for this writer this joining happens more often with his speaking and listening. The reason for that is that the latter is a more flexible process; speaking and listening is more flexible than writing and reading. Academia still adheres to the notion that writing and reading is more important than speaking and listening, but this writer wants to change that.

Much of what this writer writes is not based on the reinforcement from the reader. Most of what he writes is based on the fact that he likes to write, regardless of what the reader, other than himself, thinks of it. He still hopes that readers other than himself will one day read his writings and like it. This often forgotten thought reinforces him to write. Although he writes because he likes to write, he doesn’t write because he likes to read his own writing. He would rather like others to read and respond to what he writes.

It is strange that so much conversation can go on, without someone else, other than this writer as his own reader, taking note of it. This writer knows that such private conversations occur in many people, but he is sure that they happen more in him than in others. That is why he uses this writing as an outlet, because he doesn’t like to have these troubling thoughts. This writer is referring to his Noxious Verbal Behavior (NVB) private speech, which is the consequence of NVB public speech. If, there was more Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB) public speech, he would have more SVB private speech, but that is unfortunately not the case. This writer feels SVB deprived because he knows the difference between SVB and NVB and according to him NVB happens almost all the time everywhere. 

This writing is this writer’s way of continuing his SVB. In recent times, he has done much more writing because he found that writing is more often possible than having a SVB conversation with someone. One goal of this writing is to have more SVB conversation in the future. He wants to change people, because he knows it is possible. He can’t think of anything else.