Posts with the category “politeness-is-passing”

Most of the sayings about politeness come with the same sentiment: those who are more well-mannered will get ahead. They’ll win. They’ll do well for themselves. While this might sometimes prove to be ...  Read More

While judgmentalism and shame are to be avoided, finding orderly ways to function together can be helpful to everyone. What makes this “order” good, though, isn’t that it is orderly. It’s that it is c...  Read More

When a person’s experience with politeness is associated with a feeling of shame (or the fear of that feeling), something is wrong. Those who were meant to be polite have decided to be nothing but jud...  Read More

You don’t have to look very closely at the current state of affairs to guess that “politics” and “politeness” have nothing to do with each other, but it is true. Though they share a lot of letters, th...  Read More