Were have people's manners gone?

[musclebrains]

Whaddya think? Are those shows like Jerry Springer indicative of the loss of manners or does media culture contribute to the loss of manners? Ditto for the internet. Most of us speak in a way here that we wouldn't in real life. And my work as a writer produces letters now that are amazingly personal and vindictive but get published anyway. (I even sued a magazine over it two years ago.)

What I'm saying is that, in part, manners long helped people get along when they might not otherwise. The overdeveloped manners of black people in the South in their interactions with white people is an example (that ultimately came to be parodied in the figure of Uncle Tom).

So, I think the "decline" in manners is partly because we've given one another permission to be "more honest" with one another but we've gone way too far in licensing intemperate speech.

 

[Test boy]

People from the West still have manners. Unfortunately we have been inundated by assholes from the Northeast coast. Sorry but I have to call it as I see it. A lot of us got fed up and moved to Idaho and found the Californians had beat us there.

 

[Test boy]

Whaddya think? Are those shows like Jerry Springer indicative of the loss of manners or does media culture contribute to the loss of manners.
I think the "decline" in manners is partly because we've given one another permission to be "more honest" with one another but we've gone way too far in licensing intemperate speech.

I am quite positive that the media culture has substantially contributed to the loss of manners. I include the products of Hollywood when I speak of the media.

Having established this fact, what do we do about it???