Civility Is In Decline

According to some very learned philosophical types, "Civility is in decline." Now that seems to be a rather astute observation, and it bears some red-neck examination. As many of you readers are aware, I was christened with the title, "red -neck", from my formative years when I rode a horse for butter and egg money, and often failed to wear my bandana around my neck. You city folks have no earthly idea of the excruciating pain this can foment. (But I digress). We were going to look into how and/or why, civility is in decline. We could begin by trying to reach some common ground as to exactly what "civility" is. As, with any proper scribe, I am equipped with many voluminous tomes, some called dictionaries, some called thesaurus, or if as in my case, more than one, thesauri. Some of mine sit on shelves, while others hide in the bowels of my one eyed monster, that bears the deceptively disarming logo of an apple with a bite taken from it.

I called on these various and sundry resources and have made some interesting discoveries I'd like to share. But first! Lets see what some of the more learned phylo's have to say on the subject. They point to TV shows like CNN"S Crossfire, where everybody talks at once and hurl half truths about, like cascarones . Hell, I watch a Saturday morning fishing show where they do the same thing. Before we let our superior attitude kick in and start to cut these "entertainers", down, it's only fair to point out that they are getting paid to commit these shenannigans. Now put the shoe on the other foot. When's the last time "you", ran a red light, or passed a loading school bus, or parked in a handicapped zone? Decided to "not get involved" when it would have really helped out some poor soul? How about getting the kids to help us look for cops, as we tool along, above the speed limit, often in school zones.