Folks, after you read the paper, please go take a look at Mike Cakora’s musings on incivility in our modern trash culture. He posted a link to it near the end of this recent discussion on the same subject.
Here’s an excerpt:
It’s not until the male of our species settles down and gets ready to
start a family that a sense of politeness, propriety, and polity
overcomes his native wiring. Sure, you can teach them to show respect,
say "please" and "thank you," and get them to hide their attempts to
see down blouses and up skirts, but the onset of responsibility that
comes with the end of their second or third decade of a conscientious
culture whacking them upside the head is what turns most of the
adolescent into a real man…
What does this have to do with civility? Everything. Much as I deplore
the coarseness of popular culture, I’m compelled to come down on
permitting the excesses and letting two competing forces set the tone:
the market and culture. It’s not that I don’t know where the limits
should be, it’s that you don’t, Brad admittedly doesn’t, and none of us
really wants to have a czar decide, as the Russkies are finding out.
Again. (I hope that the third time is a charm.)…
Anyway, I notice that Mike has received no comments on his post yet, which seems a shame. Not that I agree with all that he says — in fact, one of his purposes in writing it was to disagree with me. It’s just that he put a lot of thought into it, and maybe you agree. Please check it out.
Oh, and it makes a passing reference to sex. (That should pull them in.)
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