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<blockquote data-quote="trappedslider" data-source="post: 9494059" data-attributes="member: 41932">Communication is a way to convey ideas, and Cueball is explaining a concept of communication he calls a &quot;Sandwich Helix&quot;, however when pressed on what that is, he says nobody knows — indicating that over the years communication has failed to retain the meaning of this supposedly very important concept. The humor is that if this truly was the #1 rule of communication, communication should have been able to retain its meaning. On the basis that the number #1 rule about communication would probably be the most important rule, it might even be construed to be the rule about properly communicating all context (by some apparent analogy), which would be irony — but only if anyone still understood it.The comic also displays the difference between meaning and message. Cueball is parroting a message (possibly a cliche repeated by self-help authors and influencers), even though the meaning is lost.The fictitious &quot;Sandwich Helix&quot; plays on another concept in communication, the &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliment_sandwich" target="_blank">Compliment Sandwich</a>&quot; (a.k.a. &quot;naughty word Sandwich&quot;), wherein a statement of criticism is sandwiched between two complimentary statements in order to make the negative statement easier to accept. The difference is that the Compliment Sandwich is a communication technique which is well known and whose meaning has not been lost (though it is currently disputed whether the technique is effective or whether it even might accomplish the inverse of its goals). A possible inspiration for the &quot;helix&quot; part is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Models_of_communication#Dance" target="_blank">Helical Model of Communication</a>. The creator of the model, Frank Dance, emphasized the role of communication problems. He shows communication as a dynamic and non-linear process.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="trappedslider, post: 9494059, member: 41932"] Communication is a way to convey ideas, and Cueball is explaining a concept of communication he calls a "Sandwich Helix", however when pressed on what that is, he says nobody knows — indicating that over the years communication has failed to retain the meaning of this supposedly very important concept. The humor is that if this truly was the #1 rule of communication, communication should have been able to retain its meaning. On the basis that the number #1 rule about communication would probably be the [I]most[/I] important rule, it might even be construed to be the rule about properly communicating all context (by some apparent analogy), which would be irony — but only if anyone still understood it. The comic also displays the difference between meaning and message. Cueball is parroting a message (possibly a cliche repeated by self-help authors and influencers), even though the meaning is lost. The fictitious "Sandwich Helix" plays on another concept in communication, the "[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliment_sandwich']Compliment Sandwich[/URL]" (a.k.a. "naughty word Sandwich"), wherein a statement of criticism is sandwiched between two complimentary statements in order to make the negative statement easier to accept. The difference is that the Compliment Sandwich is a communication technique which is well known and whose meaning has not been lost (though it is currently disputed whether the technique is effective or whether it even might accomplish the inverse of its goals). A possible inspiration for the "helix" part is the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Models_of_communication#Dance']Helical Model of Communication[/URL]. The creator of the model, Frank Dance, emphasized the role of communication problems. He shows communication as a dynamic and non-linear process. [/QUOTE]

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