Civil Language

If current trends in social and civil behaviour continue, a number of consequences are likely.

Apart from no one speaking the truth or their true thoughts in discussion, for fear of being charged under the law, there is the gradual removal of even simple historical and cultural greetings and spoken manners.

The following traditional terms will gradually disappear:

- Thank you
- How are you?
- Please
- Welcome
- Nice to see you
- How is he/she?
- You look good/well/great

Two drivers behind the disappearance are developing concurrently:

1. Fear of offense
2. Social-Media Speak

Fear of offending someone is currently annoying, but will soon be a factor prior to all social contact.

Text messaging and email language is now appearing in verbal conversation.

Both developments are changing the language used traditionally without fear or concern.

That change is not seeking improvement of communication or eloquence or respect. That change has a hidden agenda to prevent an opponent from defeating your argument, and thereby your delicate fragile ego.

Thus, the agenda is fraudulent and anti-truth. It must be stopped from developing and shown up for what it is.

Because Political Correctness and the Internet has now given voice to minorities, we are now seeing the explosion of minority views on social communication domains. They thought they could just announce their bullshit minority views without response.

Now they are not happy with the responses and want to shut them down, because the responses seek truth not bullshit and so there is the dispute.

Now the responders won;t be shut down, so the minorities appeal to the law and the politically powerful to shut down their responders.

That's cheating. That's lazy. That is not how we argue and discuss important issues.

But the fear of speaking the truth extends beyond disussion to common traditional greetings and banter.

From here on, people are too scared to say things to others at the point of meeting for fear of offending them. So, it would be safer to say nothing, or something contrived as neutral.

When we live in a world where saying anything can be taken as offensive, people will stop talking all together.

Is that good for a community?