Manner, Manners O where have you gone??
The rudeness of people make you just want to pull your hair out doesn't it? I find it amazing what we are "treated" to by others on a daily basis; the intimate details of their date the night before via their cell phone conversation, an annoyed customers colorful language to accompany their displeasure at an incorrect food order, loud gum chewing and a number of other socially unacceptable transgressions against humanity.
This constant assault of coarse, offensive and selfish behavior must end; civility and common decency must be restored. While people may not always know where the forks and knives go at a formal place setting, they do know the importance of manners, social graces and the painful absence of them from our world today. They are tired of being treated badly, they are tired of people behaving badly, bad behavior being rewarded and the embarrassing result of this moral decline is we have a generation that fires people over the Internet, ends relationships via text message and congressmen who twitter naked photos of their intimate parts to women younger than the invention of the cell phone; and sadly they do this at the expense of their wives and children's dignity.
Television continues to broaden our "manners-deficient" landscape with plentiful images of reality television faux-lebrities who show up, throw up and beat each other up as fun and entertainment for the masses; where a sex tape is the ticket to the "A" list, and distasteful public behavior gets you a book deal with appearences on the talk show circut. Is this the legacy we are leaving the generation that will follow us? Will the circle finally be complete when people go back to eating with their hands?
It's time for manners and social graces to make a comeback.
No comments:
Post a Comment