Imagine believing that the fraying of the social fabric (the consequence of growing inequality & regional disparities) can be repaired by having members of the elite be polite to each other.
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I'm an open-minded guy who really has no problem with almost any consensual non-socially-harmful activity adults might want to indulge in. But I'll never understand civility fetishists.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I think the issue is: civility itself will almost certainly not solve any problems, but incivility will render certain solvable problems unsolvable (or just much harder to solve).
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Replying to @HeerJeet
"The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to rankling spleen and bigotry ...
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... it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness, and a narrow, jealous, inquisitorial watchfulness over the actions and motives of others.”
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Replying to @HeerJeet
If you think this essay is an earnest endorsement of incivility....
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No, but I would say the whole career of Hazlitt (the real Hazlitt) -- a truculent and uncompromising polemicist -- is an endorsement of incivility.
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People like you hated Hazlitt while he lived.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Not the level of intellectual rigor I'd expect from one of the world's preeminent comic book scholars.
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