On the Web, promoting civility is do-able. Offline, in my opinion, this is much more problematic.
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Posted by
Summerspeaker on 08/22 at 05:31 PM
Solid points. If nothing else, we anarchists add that ominous threat to reformist campaigns. (We aim for much more.)
Posted by
Intomorrow on 08/29 at 08:08 PM
This link is to an article on Donald Trump—a perfect example of someone at the top who says foolish things not because he is a fool but because he has no one to adequately correct him:
http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/donald-trump-dumbest-things-hes-said-women-192600474.html
Posted by
Intomorrow on 08/29 at 09:33 PM
...btw, one might counter that since Donald Trump says foolish things (George F. Will called Trump a “bloviating ignoramus”) he is a fool, however he is very wealthy and if he sometimes is deemed foolish for what he says—not his actions—it’s comparable to Liberace announcing criticism of his music resulted in him “crying all the way to the bank.”
No matter what anyone says, it is universally thought to be better to be a wealthy ignoramus than a starving wizard.
Posted by
Intomorrow on 08/30 at 07:57 AM
...Trumps est. worth is circa $4- 7 billion, we should all be so foolish as to be worth billions of dollars! The relevancy to this piece is: a Sovereign Individual such as Trump is almost certainly uncivil not because he is naturally that way, but because he has no one brave enough to say,
“Donald, you need to think this over- what you are saying in public is better left unsaid.”
Another possibility—and another factor in assessing incivility—is that Trump may be uncivil in seeking publicity.
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