Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

[Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>]

On 2012-11-12 2:33 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> My experience is that all so-called "primitive" societies have an
> excellent grasp of this thing called manners - it's the oil that
> lubricates social interaction.

Interestingly enough this is most likely due to the principle of 'an 
armed society is a polite society'.

In primitive societies most people are armed (with the arms of the day, 
ie spears, bows/arrows, knives, etc), and there is no concept of suing 
someone over something as silly as punching some obnoxious jerk in the 
face for being an obnoxious jerk. The jerk gets punched, everyone knows 
he deserved it, 'nuff said.

So, people in primitive societies tend to not be obnoxious jerks - 
unless they are really big and mean and ornery, in which case they may 
get away with it for a while - until he ends up dead, everyone knows he 
deserved it, 'nuff said.

> By contrast, Western culture by and large is not only mostly ignorant
> of manners and proprietary, but we made a conscious decision to
> discard all of it entirely.
>
> I too have come into contact with many cultures other than
> my own. The only one that goes out of it's way to be rude as a matter of
> course is the Caucasian. Food for thought.

Due mostly to the litigious nature of modern society. No one wants to 
risk having their kids stolen from them by kidnappers and child 
molesters (aka 'Child Protective Services' or some other similar named 
'service'), so they neglect their parental responsibilities of 
*disciplining* their children, and voila - those undisciplined kids grow 
up to be men who are afraid to be and/or don't know *how* to be men, 
women who are afraid to be thought of as different from men - and no one 
wants to be the one to get sued by the arrogant jerk for punching them 
in the face.

Sorry, having a weird day today...