Whatever happened to civility?
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keithold thanks all baggers
ANSWERS: 13
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It's been going away for thousands of years...;-D... "I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint" (Hesiod, 8th century BC). "The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress." --Peter the Hermit (A.D. 1274)
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It has gone the way of chivalry, good manners, moderation, respect, cordiality, grace, kindness and decorum.
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It's inefficient, for one. Cordiality takes too much memorization of etiquette, which is just a useless social decoration for people who are scared of the un-gentrified. Second, culture and all its memes continue to change, mutate and evolve, and they always have and always will, and it's really, really stupid to think there's anything unchanging. When we are given ideals as children, as we grow, we see more and more how they fail to match up to what is. This continuing to learn about the real reality creates the illusion, as the dissonance between the real and the ideal widens, that society is degrading, when, in fact, it is almost exactly the same. There are small mutations here and there, but over the past 5 or 10 thousand years, human behavior at its fundaments has not changed much.
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It is reserved for the upper class. Your "Betters" as the British would say. In simple terms, helping someone might be seen as "Charity, or being "Nice" civility comes in many different shapes.
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It still lives but needs a bit more care and promotion.
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HOW THE @#$! WOULD I KNOW!!!
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I believe that what people consider as the loss of civility is merely its nasty, true underbelly being shown. When did it ever exist as commonly defined? During the medieval times, when knights beat their women and mistreated villagers? Back when Spain was conducting its inquisition movement? Back when teachers were allowed to beat kids with rulers? Bah I tell thee.
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I think it pretty much died when the 21st Century started.
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Most folks are only civil when they've got things going their own way. It's when they aren't top dog anymore that crow pie starts tasting most foul. Got Republican?
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She ran down the hall but will be back soon.
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You could not prove it to me one way or the other that it survives in much different amounts than it every did. Some have it, some don't and it does not take much recall or a reading of history to see that is how it's pretty much always been.
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Fear arrived with a vengance in peoples lives. We avoid all contact with strangers where possible because the media like to always report bad news (very rarely much good news anyway - lol). TV shapes modern society in more ways than you can imagine. Trash TV for brainwashing the masses. Sick and Violent movies to help the Paranoid become more Paranoid. Celebrity TV to make us spend money we cant afford to pay back. There are still many decent people in the world - it just gets harder to find them...
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1) The more older they get, the more some of us think they deserve civility, and the more they start to miss it... 2) "it might be inappropriate to ask "Whatever happened to civility on the internet?" as you'd have a hard time demonstrating there ever was any." Source and further information: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000906.html
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