[indyreb]

excellent article

[Hugh the Scot]

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they can be impolite without having their skulls split open, as a general thing.

[proust]

“Morality, Not Civility, Is the Basis of the Social Order”
Taliban makes the same argument.

[robroys woman]

Bkmk

[Albion Wilde]

America is now more like cage B. There is a minimal form of civility attempting to pass as morality.

Know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. —2 Timothy 3:2-7

[going hot]

How are the B rats going to be taught to say please, with shock or cheese?

[Poison Pill]

I would like to propose a hypothesis: "If a society loses its belief in God and Judeo-Christian morality, it will go down the drain faster than you can flush a wad of toilet paper."

Rome deteriorated as it became more Christian.