Confrontation vs Courtesy
I wonder, what is it about people today?
Why do they seek confrontation rather than courtesy? I mean it seems many people today resort to being rude, to try and create drama, rather than simply trying to get along. It just seems such a waste of energy, when things would be so much easier, to just be nice.
When did things change from being cordial, to being nothing but rudeness and anger?
Kind of wonder if it comes from how our politics has become more confrontational, more attack in nature, rather than a free exchange of ideas, of differing opinions. Here, it seems to have started with the election of Brian Mulroney, and in the states, seemed to have begun, in earnest, with Bill Clinton. Yet I wonder, is it that simple?
What made them think such tactics would work? AND work they do, because if they didn’t work, would we have people like George Bush being elected President, Stephen Harper becoming Prime Minister. We have men who are decent, honest, like Stephane Dion being forced out of leadership and even people like Bob Dole being cast aside, all because they didn’t retaliate against mean spirited ads.
Strange change, isn’t it?
