#1200 Of Flies and Honey

“You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar”, admonished my Mom when my 11-year-old mouth, entombed in braces, and in that pre-pubescent, falsetto shouted to my little sister to “move it or lose it” when she was between me and making a peanut butter and banana sandwich.

It appears the public discourse would do well to have Mom governing speech.

From top to bottom, in congressional settings, courtrooms, boardrooms, and TV reality shows, civility is officially deceased.

But we can still decide to be decent in an indecent world.

The rude movement that is underway began somewhere.  Some well know public figures or popular movies and television shows fed us discourtesy and little by little we, the public, consumed, tolerated and eventually emulated it. It was an insidious beginning, no doubt thought to be the lexicon of a few who were using it to entertain us. That’s no longer the case. It’s now endemic.

Decency and civility can do the same. Last week I predicted that the pendulum, regarding screen use, will begin to swing back the other way, I believe polite discourse will do the same. I’m out in front of it, combatting loutishness with politeness as I travel through my world.

If you’re as rankled as I am by watching some of the brightest and most prominent people in America stoop to schoolyard-speak, practice it’s opposite.  Who knows, maybe we will be the start of a movement.

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