On Sunday, 27 May 2018 at 05:30:22 UTC, TheUncivilServant wrote:
On Sunday, 27 May 2018 at 04:57:20 UTC, SlimeBag wrote:
surely the best form of professional etiquette is to NOT be
offended by what others say.
as soon as you ignore that etiquette, it's a slippery slope to
utlimately controlling others.
I agree.
One can also argue, that for those who are intent on
practisiing 'etiquette', those who are not practicing
'etiquette', become (initially) an irritant (to those intent on
practicing 'etiquette').
Eventually, this cultivates into a 'hatred' (of those not
practicing 'etiquette').
So, 'etiquette' actually leads to an uncivilised society.
The 'victorian era' of Emily Post, was stife with 'etiquette',
and is why Freud had so many patients.
This is precisely why their are so many problems in the world. So
many people believe that the way to achieve some imaginary ideal
is to forcibly go that way and just through "banging ones head"
enough it will magically materialize.
What happens, at least in the long run, in fact is that they do
the exact opposite of what they were trying to achieve. You can
point to any number of the major social issues and see that they
have progressively worsened precisely because of the people
supposedly trying to make things better have done this.
So society progressively gets worse in many areas and more and
more people come out to "fix" things only to dig the hole deeper.
Sometimes people just need to be told off, sometimes people need
to be shot, some times people need bad thing to happen so that
worse things don't. Humans can't control everything and trying
only makes things worse. It's built in to the system. The
Heisenberg uncertainty principle is built in to everything. It is
applicable not just to atoms but things composed of atoms like
love(which is a very complex system of atoms), gun rights,
education, etc. It's bad enough that humans are pretty clueless
about the true complexities of the universe but their ignorance
in the very basic concept of balance is what really makes the
world the way it is. Westerners tend to be extremely ignorant of
balance for some reason.
