IMA SOL MAN
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I don't know what you are calling "superficial nonsense". Courtesy is the lubricant of society. Showing respect for women, the elderly, officials, etc., that is fundamental to a civil society. We have lost a lot of that recently, and our civilization is breaking down--no, IS BROKEN. Look at the big cities, people just walk into stores and take what they want. Walgreen and Walmart have closed stores due to theft. Some places you go into everything is behind glass or plastic, locked up, you have to ask an employee to get something. Washington state, a judge just ruled the cops can't arrest someone for a property crime unless it is valued at $1,000 or more! In California, they just let the criminals go after booking--no cash bail. They are back out on the street committing another crime before the arresting officer finishes the paperwork on the first crime. San Francisco is littered with human excrement, syringes and the detritus left by the homeless and their camps. Now the city council there has voted to pay African-Americans millions of dollars in reparations. Remember the "Summer of Love" in the Pacific Northwest? Remember hmmm, oh, I don't know, the riot in Kenosha?! Kyle Rittenhouse? Riots after George Floyd died? Covid lock downs and repression of civil rights? People are moving out of New York and California to get away from all the crime and nonsense. I could go on, but I won't, there's no sense to it. My ranting won't change a thing. Actually, Kansas has been fairly peaceful through most of the tribulations, but I'm sure our time is coming--the trouble is spreading.A lot of that stuff is superficial nonsense. A lot of the other stuff I still see people doing. So people don't say "how do you do" anymore. People don't need to be so formal all the time. I still see people greeting each other with waves or head nods and a "hello", "hey", "how's it going" or even a "sup". Handshakes are still around, but after covid they've lost some popularity to the fist bump. The notion is still the same. People still hold doors. Men for women, women for men, men for men, women for women, children for adults and adults for children. Yeah, I still witness people of all ages at the raceway standing for The National Anthem with their hands/hats over their hearts.
Sounds to me like you need to be living in a better place.
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