Yes. There's a reason for manners. They form a boundary, cast a circle, provide a way to be reasonably safe in society as we go about our rituals of engagement. Yes, they can be cumbersome and able to be dismissed as archaic and out moded, until everything crashes about us in a frenzy of incivility. Somewhere in the debris of that lie those out of date ways of behaving that if retrieved could help us navigate what is essentially am increasingly hostile world. And in that process of using manners we may be able to see the other as worthy of our respect.
Yes. There's a reason for manners. They form a boundary, cast a circle, provide a way to be reasonably safe in society as we go about our rituals of engagement. Yes, they can be cumbersome and able to be dismissed as archaic and out moded, until everything crashes about us in a frenzy of incivility. Somewhere in the debris of that lie those out of date ways of behaving that if retrieved could help us navigate what is essentially am increasingly hostile world. And in that process of using manners we may be able to see the other as worthy of our respect.