According to Greene, 50 Cent is an example of what Machiavelli called a New Prince, a leader who emerges in a time of chaos or turmoil and rewrites the rules.
Conversation is a bit of a chaotic act. People sometimes cling to the act of small talk. Seems like you've done without that. Why frantically skate back to the norm? Are you afraid? Rewrite the rules, be a leader, be the inquisitor.
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