Civility is worse than useless when practiced with the uncivil. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
It is difficult for people who respect civilities to be other-than-civil, even toward uncivilized people. This is a weakness that has led to the widespread incivility of our times. It is a mistake based upon the erroneous assumption of fair-play and well-intendedness. It is the same mistake made by a man who gets into a fight with someone who does not play by the rules. Who fails to grasp that in a fight, there are no rules.
There is only win – or lose – when you’re forced to fight.
The problem is that civilized people want to avoid fights. This leads them to try to avoid confrontations. A very good example of this problem being the old saw about not talking about religion or politics over Thanksgiving dinner. The intention – peace at the dinner table – is good. But it serves to empower people who refuse to be civil, at the expense of civilized people. The latter shut themselves up – for the sake of those who can’t have a civilized discussion.
There is a cruel irony here in that a civilized society requires civilized behavior. But it is also the thing that can destroy civilized society – by allowing the uncivilized to dominate it.
The PC guru professor told me years ago that it was the sign of a “civilization” in collapse.
Animals should not try to act like people and I have given up on it.
Farting in faces and doing the groin pat for any trash talkers as I walk the flank.
Only love for those who show me some and as Tupac said, the realest don’t have very many friends.
This just in from Brent Amaker and the Rodeo:
Sissy New Age Cowboy (Country F’)
LMFAO! There is a literal blue haired genetic misfire on Pure Bolshevik Soviet while I watch the best Bob Hoskins ever, The Irish Problem.
More movies that couldn’t be made today and a trash review on IMDB was all I needed to know.
JHK came back today swinging with wordsmith fire and venom.
(Tip of the Hat)
Civility? A construct of the white male patriarchy and of no use in Bolshevik Revolution Redux.