Ears and Mouth Disease

I coin this term ears and mouth disease to refer to the communication pathology of mishandling what has been shared to only one by sharing it to another. It is rumor in the same sense, but without the malice of gossiping or badmouthing. It is viral in a sense that it passes into the the veins of an organization's communication system or its grape vine.

Who can get the disease? Anyone, who is opportuned to have been made aware of someone's situation, experience, thoughts or feelings, about another person or anything that is within the organization, particularly within the context of hot issue where everyone is affected.

It manifests when the ears hear something that the mouth can't hold, to be kept for along time. So the carrier is the first to experience something related to the hot issue, the one affected by the context, and the one opportuned is just a medium or channel.

The medium will have no interest to mouth what the ears heard, not unless it is tuned to speak. What tunes the medium in is when context or issue is brought to the discussion. The medium then gives the lead, through a blind item. In the item the facts are laid bare, but the essentials to protect the primary carrier are kept for ethical purposes.

The other interested ears would continue to tune in the medium so they could get the foggy message clearer. The medium makes the signal clearer, because the main carrier did not put a gatekeeper to hold the message from being transmitted to another. The medium has its own filter. It selectively chooses the next opportuned ears to hear what has been mouthed in its listening ears.

The message will be passed on and on, because it simply can not be held. It is too hot that the receiving ears send it to the mouth to extinguish, but it is too hot even for the mouth to keep. It can not be swallowed for it is a waste deposit, it can not be spat because the earth is not worth of it. It can't linger as a thought, because the smoke will get through the ears.

The carrier catches ears and mouth desease from someone or something that gives him a bad experience from an unconventional situation arising from the hot issue. It is like being burned and to get the fire out of the skin, the carrier wags it to someone else.

When it is passed on, it relieves the carrier, and that medium must passed it on again to another to be relieved as well. The transmission is not perpetual though. It dies off naturally, when the hot issue is put off. But, it would have not been tranmitted, if the first to acquire it had the natural instinct to put the fire off as is where is.