Why Has Everyone Become So Rude?
You regularly hear middle aged white guys complaining about this. But it genuinely is a valid question. In the last 10 or 20 years people have gotten much more offensive. Courtesy seems to be so old school.
----- YOU LIE!!!
What happened to civility? And even more important, is there anything that we can do to bring good manners back?
Maybe back in the bad old days people weren’t so anonymous. If you behaved like a complete jerk, people who knew your family would see you. And you didn’t want to disgrace your family. Nowadays we move around so much trying to “get ahead” that many of us no longer have any extended family living nearby.
Not to mention that both men and women have to work now, so our children are being raised by the television set and day care centers. I regularly write terribly negative things about organized religion, but at least those of us who grew up as “believers” learned about right and wrong, good and evil, and being sinful vs. living a good life. Kids now pay about as much attention to concepts like that as they do to proper capitalization. I sometimes read emails from young college graduates who are in their first few years working as school teachers, and I’m amazed how often they mis-spell words, and totally blow off capital letters and proper punctuation. This is from school teachers!
Disrespect for all authority figures, and all rules and regulations. History is useless and irrelevant.
Young people right out of college who have absolutely zero meaningful life experience beyond playing video games and riding skate boards, who honestly think their opinion is as valid (indeed maybe more so) as an elder who has a lifetime of varied experiences and hard knocks which he has learned from.
I guess I’m just another old geezer ranting about this, but in my view this does not bode well for the future of mankind. This lack of civility is not just an American phenomenon either, it is prevalent in most developed countries as well.
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