With Apologies to Sena Bryer

[Midare]

Yeah, bud... uh... That's still social interaction. A person isn't speaking to an inanimate object just because the other person decides not to engage.

I've got no horse in this race but... you are trying to explain social interactions to someone who earlier in this thread was comparing people to fanatics of that one regime from the 1940's...

You can try to explain to a fish how to walk, but it won't start training to run a marathon.