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Has society become less courteous?
Absolutely. And I think it can be tied to many factors including a generation growing up with the internet. But also intellectual laziness, cynicism and (let me turn this around on the author of the OP article) the assumption that we are all 'special snowflakes.'
A choice between passive-aggressive angst and in-your-face vulgarity? I, um, choose neither. And I don't see them as being representative of anything but a very narrow, self-serving slice of reality.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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