The Enforced Politeness (EP) meme is currently trying to penetrate its way into the Western cultural sphere in a range of different guises. Very often it has been fought off - I can only speak for England's social immune system.
Let us not forget that Python (the programming language) was named after the satirical troupe who made their name lampooning the establishment. The Cambridge Tradition (they were all English graduates of that college) - and which is now utterly lost due to The Infiltration, hinted at earlier - was one in which though truth (Science) may find itself outnumbered, yet it was never able to be out-gunned.
