(08-23-2019, 01:41 PM)RJNorton Wrote: I agree with Bill and Laurie. I would be curious to know if this apparent decline in civility is also seen in Europe and elsewhere.
Here in France the situation is terrible. Every day there is knife attacks, abuses, people fighting, online harassment and threats for nothing. Intelligence services say they observe a "general ensavagment" of the society. Many of the violent acts are committed by people who have ties with Radical Islam in its various forms, political and warrior. Some native French /European ascent /immigrants who are not Muslim/peacefull and unhatefull Muslims are fleeing the big cities for the countryside. Like an internal exodus. For the state authorities deliberately aren't protecting them.
Also people turn violent for everything. They fight for stuff on sale in the supermarket. The fight to get a seat in the bus....
The incivility of our times is not new-or is it?
