Robert Harrison, host of Standford’s Entitled Opinions, recently remarked that contemporary sociological research shows that the overwhelming amount of human conversation across race, gender, culture and class can be classified as “gossip”. Most of the time most people talk about other people they know and their affairs. A minority of conversation fits into a second category, namely politics. The third, and by far the smallest category that most human conversation fits into, is talk about ideas. Apparently we spend the least amount of time talking about the most important things: the good, the true and the beautiful. Yikes!