Present future

[Penn]

For some time now, we have been bearing wittiness to the loss of civility in our society. The steady erosion can squarely be placed at the altar of progressive liberal social justice warriors, those equality/equity crusaders who placed Obama in position to Fundamentally Chage America, the result of his eight years in that position, ensured the roll out of BLM/defund law enforcement and the CRT theorist, who have succeeded in igniting racial hatred. The latest example, a video of two 12-year-old, black, grammar school age children, savagely beating a 9-year-old white girl, on a Miami-Dade school bus, with adult supervision on board.

imoo, the BLM movement is the foundational block, which supports the actionable CRT argument of oppressor vs oppressed, and is the root cause, the faciliatory concept that empowers physical retaliation against whites and is the linchpin to the programed campaign to undermine the whole of society. YMMV

https://cah.ucf.edu/fpr/article/inci...ocietal-decay/

Miss Manners’ conviction is felt even more intensely by columnist William Raspberry, who believes that we must reduce our quick recourse to confrontation in every social or political disagreement: “Social activists don’t just disagree with their opposition; they speak and behave as though their opponents are the personification of evil: racist, sexist, market-worshiping pigs or irresponsible psychobabbling idiots. They’d have us believe our world is divided between nonchalant baby-killers and bedroom-invading fetus worshipers.” Does such incivility have deep costs? Raspberry believes so: “Am I suggesting that ordinary incivility is partly to blame for the deaths of school children? In a word, yes. I’m saying that adult irascibility–from political intemperance to road rage–can poison our social and civic atmosphere.” In other words, he sees the rampant incivility of our social and political life as creating an environment in which an occasional middle school child will absorb the spirit of the violent rhetoric that permeates society: “We behave in our civic and political lives as though anything goes, so long as it fits our side of the issues. And we are endlessly surprised when our children show themselves to be heartless teasers, graceless winners, bitter losers, self-centered jerks–and occasionally killers.”

In the Durkheimian perspective, it is now possible to see that the effects of incivility recounted in the first section pale in comparison to the real cost of incivility: the loss of social cohesion that is also the root social cause of our burgeoning incivility. Civility is Durkheimian morality: adherence to the bonds of society. Incivility is its opposite: anomie, the loss of the limits of those social bonds. That loss means that society loses its cohesion. Since cohesion is the cement that holds society together, the presence of anomie in itself becomes a barometer of societal decay.

[Penn]

For some time now, we have been bearing wittiness to the loss of civility in our society. The steady erosion can squarely be placed at the altar of progressive liberal social justice warriors, those equality/equity crusaders who placed Obama in position to Fundamentally Chage America, the result of his eight years in that position, ensured the roll out of BLM/defund law enforcement and the CRT theorist, who have succeeded in igniting racial hatred. The latest example, a video of two 12-year-old, black, grammar school age children, savagely beating a 9-year-old white girl, on a Miami-Dade school bus, with adult supervision on board.

imoo, the BLM movement is the foundational block, which supports the actionable CRT argument of oppressor vs oppressed, and is the root cause, the faciliatory concept that empowers physical retaliation against whites and is the linchpin to the programed campaign to undermine the whole of society. YMMV

https://cah.ucf.edu/fpr/article/inci...ocietal-decay/

Miss Manners’ conviction is felt even more intensely by columnist William Raspberry, who believes that we must reduce our quick recourse to confrontation in every social or political disagreement: “Social activists don’t just disagree with their opposition; they speak and behave as though their opponents are the personification of evil: racist, sexist, market-worshiping pigs or irresponsible psychobabbling idiots. They’d have us believe our world is divided between nonchalant baby-killers and bedroom-invading fetus worshipers.” Does such incivility have deep costs? Raspberry believes so: “Am I suggesting that ordinary incivility is partly to blame for the deaths of school children? In a word, yes. I’m saying that adult irascibility–from political intemperance to road rage–can poison our social and civic atmosphere.” In other words, he sees the rampant incivility of our social and political life as creating an environment in which an occasional middle school child will absorb the spirit of the violent rhetoric that permeates society: “We behave in our civic and political lives as though anything goes, so long as it fits our side of the issues. And we are endlessly surprised when our children show themselves to be heartless teasers, graceless winners, bitter losers, self-centered jerks–and occasionally killers.”

In the Durkheimian perspective, it is now possible to see that the effects of incivility recounted in the first section pale in comparison to the real cost of incivility: the loss of social cohesion that is also the root social cause of our burgeoning incivility. Civility is Durkheimian morality: adherence to the bonds of society. Incivility is its opposite: anomie, the loss of the limits of those social bonds. That loss means that society loses its cohesion. Since cohesion is the cement that holds society together, the presence of anomie in itself becomes a barometer of societal decay.