Dualogue: a discursive framework consisting of two or more independent narratives simultaneously and exclusively performed. Increasingly, these are the terms on which we interact with one another, talking around, at, over, and against. So how do we overcome the antagonistic, short-term thinking that characterizes contemporary civil and political discourse? The answer: sustainable speech.Sources:Alan Watts, The Way of Zen (New York: Pantheon, 1957).

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