badgenome on 23 January 2013
| richardhutnik said: And, with this, you have a lost of common manners and etiquette, and way to be called back you might be nuts. |
When was this golden age of good manners, exactly? I don't think it ever really existed. But even if you buy into the idyllic view of the '50s or whenever was supposed to be the glory days of etiquette, how much courtesy do you think you'd have been shown if you espoused the wrong beliefs? About as much as you'd be shown if you were the wrong color, I'd guess. Probably not even that much. Naturally, if you live in a more homogeneous and conformist time and place, there will be less strife because what's there to fight over?
