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CrispyQ

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9. I feel like our society

Reply to RKP5637 (Original post)

Sat Sep 14, 2019, 10:36 AM

Sep 2019

has lost an appreciation for the difference between the private space & the public space. People are bringing their living room behavior into the public sphere. If I'm going to have to see other people's living room behavior, I'd rather just stay in mine. I hear my right wing cousins complain about being PC. When I was a kid, it was called being polite.

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The more I look out at the world, I think this is a better place to be. [View all] RKP5637 Sep 2019 OP

Please don't give up or give in. I think we need to return to... EarnestPutz Sep 2019 #1

Yes, you are probably quite correct. I come across some of them yelling at me for no reason RKP5637 Sep 2019 #2

Living in rural Texas it can be lonely sometimes until I speak to some of my RW neighbors. I much walkingman Sep 2019 #3

I think a religious cult lives around me, and they are nasty creatures. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2019 #5

I think this is called growing up...you have learned what's really important and just shed all the Karadeniz Sep 2019 #4

Yep, quite true! Some of the people that live around me are still on the seventh grade RKP5637 Sep 2019 #6

Sometimes we just need to retreat and recharge our batteries. nt littlemissmartypants Sep 2019 #7

Yes, agree. It just gets to be too much sometimes. I need to relax from it a bit. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2019 #8

I feel like our society CrispyQ Sep 2019 #9

Good description of it all! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2019 #10