Clearly, my user name is not my real name, so I am guilty as sin, for whatever follows. However, in my defense, it is not difficult to uncover my real identity. It is sad that anyone would bother, but some people do lead sad lives.
What I am about to write... is about rubber necking. Traditionally rubbernecking is considered as staring at objects or accidents, etc. However, there is also the art of quickly turning our heads or ignoring things we could and or should do something about.
For purposes of this diatribe, it is the action or rather non action of someone that sees something wrong or incorrect... then quickly turns their head to ignore. Invariably this person will then post on social media that experience and lament the failings of our society.
As we ignore the world around us and fail to invest ourselves in that world, the world becomes more uncivilized. If I can repeatedly get away with some uncivilized act, it becomes part of my style and begins to seep into the actions of others.
As we continue this tradition of ignoring wrongs, ills, misbehavior, etc., we can continue to see incivility increase. But hey... it does give us something to post on social media. I would simply ask the poster to stop lamenting about the decline of our society after observing some indiscretion with out actually commenting at that time and place of occurrence.
Beware, mentioning this on social media might bring scorn down around you, by people that rubber neck in their actual lives and hide behind their screennames.
Do you see the problem?
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