Thank You For Not Blackberrying
by William Murchison
While Congress labors and sweats over health care reform, let us turn to larger matters, pertaining to the ways we live together. Pertaining, specifically, to the question of what you do when you notice someone Twittering or Blackberrying in your presence rather than according you the attention you rightly deserve.
Do you shout, stomp, throw a water glass, or just sigh and accept the implied insult to your humanity, sad in the knowledge that Progress has deal another blow to civilizati ...
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #1
Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:25 PM
Sir;...Manners are just a form, and all forms are forms of relationship, and it is the relationship that is the life of the form...Maybe the form you are working in is all empty of meaning, and there is nothing any living person really wants to do with it... So what then, if they go in their minds and through the means of technology to where they want to be and with who they wish to be with??? Will you fault them because you are a relic, a dinosaur, a fossil??? Maybe you will expect them to keep company with your corpse when your life has long departed...Maybe you are already an anachronism, and have lived to see yourself made irrelivent... Why then blame those who care not for your company??? The pretense they put on of respecting you is but another form...If you want some real respect, then pay for it...Money is behind your actions... What would make you believe money is not behind their actions, their showing of respect and disrespect???It has always been the case that we live and die by the quality of our relationships, and forms are fine so long as they help to structure our relationships effectively enough for us to reach our goals... Apart from that, there is no point to a failed form, even forms of respect and civility...Thanks...Sweeney
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