RE: Civility
November 19, 2018 at 7:19 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2018 at 7:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Now it's free association over words with a negative connotation.
It was uncivil to discuss the evils of slavery in the pre war south (and..you know..still is, lelz). It was uncivil to make a fuss about ones station in life in victorian or colonial society. Civility has always been used as hammer with which to beat down the proles whenever the social order is threatened. Civility has never been more than deference to that order...whatever that order is. Civility, itself, is hammered into our heads (and it's hammered into our heads as a floating positive) precisely because that order depends on a certain amount of unquestioning acceptance. The notion is now and has always been that too much honesty would dissolve the glue..and if that glue is holding up something you value..you're going to think civility is a big deal..whereas, when you're on the other side of whatever's been glued together, you might have a different view.
It was uncivil to discuss the evils of slavery in the pre war south (and..you know..still is, lelz). It was uncivil to make a fuss about ones station in life in victorian or colonial society. Civility has always been used as hammer with which to beat down the proles whenever the social order is threatened. Civility has never been more than deference to that order...whatever that order is. Civility, itself, is hammered into our heads (and it's hammered into our heads as a floating positive) precisely because that order depends on a certain amount of unquestioning acceptance. The notion is now and has always been that too much honesty would dissolve the glue..and if that glue is holding up something you value..you're going to think civility is a big deal..whereas, when you're on the other side of whatever's been glued together, you might have a different view.
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