Thursday, January 7, 2010

When We Pinch Our Lower Lip With Our Fingers

Annual FDP Epiphany Conference

Chairman Guido Westerwelle addresses the audience during the FDP Ephiphany conference on January 6, 2010 in Stuttgart, Germany. The Epiphany conference is the first party meeting of the FDP in this year to rework their general principles.

This is a pacifying gesture. Normally whenever we touch, lick with our tongue, or otherwise interact with our lips it is pacifying. This particular gesture is not all that unique, but what is interesting is how it pacifies us: It manipulates our lower lip into a suckling position which first provided us comfort when we were very, very young...◦
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