uh oh “Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named . . . but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
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this is an illuminating divide I don’t think being polite or having certain codes of behavior means you’re not an Asshole (e.g. the English) but then again I am incurably Californian
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yes perhaps codes of conduct and communication norms at least serve as a tax on antisocial behavior, by restricting the dimensions along which it can be carried out? Californians can be impossibly dickish too you know! you might be shocked by your crassness in Minnesota :)
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oh god absolutely "the rules do not apply to me" imagine 40 million people who are convinced beyond any possible persuasion they are Special
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