Marcus G. Daniels wrote at 01/18/2013 08:47 AM: > Politics tends to make cliques fragile because individual powerful > people defect and one slightly weaker clique can quickly become a > powerful clique. The rules they make to lend legitimacy to their > endless conflicts can help the little guy! The more competing > understandings there are, the less important it is for to conform to any > one of them.
Right. And that decrease in importance of conforming to any single concept of polite behavior, erodes the concept of polite behavior altogether. And that means polite behavior _must_ change because of the Information Age, etc. -- glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
