Let’s begin with a story

Lewis Caroll once penned a story of a little girl lost.

Her name was Alice.

Alice was of an inquisitive and  curious nature.

It was Alice’s curiosity  that drew her down the rabbit hole.

Her descent was a long one.

once fallen she could not slow her descent.

When she hit bottom she was disoriented and confused.

She had exchanged one world for another, one of confusion.

Once there she tried desperately to  do anything to find her way back.

There  there was no way in going back the way she came.

Alice’s trip down the rabbit hole is symbolic.

It is symbolic of chaotic dissolution, and unraveling; wildly symbolic of what what has occurred within this current society.

Our actions have become our undoing.

Give it to me straight without a chaser

There are some things in life, in which removal equates to regression.

There is a  point wherein adaptation does not move you forward but rather moves you backward.

Two things in particular have aided in the regression of our persons.

Due to the rejection of said values, and adaptations of new and shifting paradigms,  the whole is experiencing a pattern of retrograde.

Those two things being, discontinuance of civility and manners

Thus, the whole has become brutish in nature

There is but one thing that separates men from brute beast.

That is the ability to rule over emotions and instinctual drive.

The ability to control  and exchange such unfettered passions and proclivities for civil conduct and manners.

However such control and virtue stems from a conscience knowledge of one’s place in the world relative to others.

A clear understanding that there is no line delineating the statehood of one person from another.

At and above all, higher reasoning permits him or her to act in a manner that is conducive to sustaining life and brotherhood.

For, another individual is merely an extension of self, and to aide another is to aide one’s self.

Thus, this higher reasoning drives one to be civil and mannerable even when there is an option to act counter.

Yet, civility and manners seem to be in short supply.

The rudimentary actions, which have sustained and lent much in the path of achievement and growth are being neglected more and more

Many find it unnecessary to be manner-able or civil in their deportment’s.

The more rude and caustic the better.

Consequently, the most caustic substances in the world, such as lye, never built anything but are rather substances of destruction.

Why would a progressive people, with goals of building adopt a more caustic approach.

Would they not be undertaking the counter, destruction?

Uncivil behavior is a telltale sing of uncivil people, barbaric in nature.

Such behaviorism is reminiscent of the dark ages.

This is a sign of retrograded movement.

Retrograded movement as defined by Merriam Webster is, ” Returning to an earlier and usually worse state or condition.”

Remember the axiom, “together we stand divided we fall”.

This is a significant truth.

A society that stands divided is vulnerable.

Diversionary and division is an essential tactical strategy of any enemy unit.

To cause division is to weaken, so that it easier to infiltrate.

Are we really a society?

A society is a group of people working together for a common cause.

A society sets out to  achieve as a whole.

In a society good manners and civility are paradigms of utmost importance.

Good manners and civility sustain human relationships and camaraderie needed to unify (work together).

We have long moved from this.

A Reiteration of the question

Are we a society?

Although considered a society in form we have become tribalistic.

This cannot do, this is unsuitable and inhospitable.

A society of tribes will never succeed as a whole.

The only thing that can restore the whole is a re-commitment to those behaviors which bring about unity as opposed to division.

Two such important being civility and manners.