Thursday, 21 February 2008
courtesy
Whenever news programmes want to run a predictable item on obesity they then settle for the predictable background footage in some shopping mall, showing various citizens with corpulent spreads and large behinds. But do they ask these people's permission to photograph them at such a disadvantage? And if not isn't the whole process incredibly rude? It maybe that if the PC Republic is ever declared we'll find that simple old-fashioned courtesy is a thing of the past.
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You're absolutely right. There are many other examples you could have quoted. Courtesy is the oil if civilisation, and we all know what happens to engines that aren't oiled.
ReplyDeleteI think Harfat and Tygerbright are making too much of this. Many people of all ages know what courtesy is and put it to good use.
ReplyDeletePart of the phenomenon that we see now is a direct result of the current media obsession with 'celeb' culture. Some sort of law of diminishing returns seems to be at work with this spoilt group: the fewer worthwhile things they have to say, the ruder they are about saying it.