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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: "all the way over on the West Coast"
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: "all the way over on the West Coast"
Posts: 1,032
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Greg -
No, I don't think they are becoming nicer. Nor do I believe they are becoming meaner.
Wondering if it is because you have time now to slow down (and a body that is slowing down), reflect more, and can (and want to) pay attention to the details (the writer's eye and ear?) that you are noticing that by and large, people are nice. And I think that the life you lead is one that attracts niceness - but nice has always been there.
Maybe society feels a little nicer - my theory is that they, we (Americans) are tired of the uncivil and polarizing Bush years - not to mention a war nobody really wants. Hatred is wearying (this echos your Lennon paragraph).
But on a face to face basis, I think that most people are nice - and always have been.
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“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.” — Susan B. Anthony
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