{"id":8992,"date":"2011-05-21T21:05:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T21:05:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-21T21:05:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T21:05:24","slug":"A-Renaissance-of-Rudeness-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=8992","title":{"rendered":"A Renaissance of Rudeness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps you read about Lakeysha Beard, the 39-year-old woman who was charged with disorderly conduct for talking loudly on her cellphone in the designated quiet car of an Amtrak train as she traveled last weekend from Oakland, Calif., to Portland, Ore. According to the Oregon state troopers who finally escorted her off, she had talked nonstop for 16 hours, despite repeated complaints and warnings. At first, I viewed this story as a perfect parable of modern rudeness. I began to make a list in my head of other boorish types I’d like to see taken away in handcuffs, like people who refuse to maintain eye contact during a conversation because they’re texting or those who use cellphones in restaurants.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

But my joy was cut short when it occurred to me that even bothering to have a negative opinion about any of the above was casting myself as a relic from another age. I might as well be quoting quaint pieces of advice by Emily Post about ill-mannered people who crinkle the cellophane on their candies during a matinee. It’s clear that everything we once assumed about the workings of manners has shifted. Lakeysha Beard is the brave herald of an emerging renaissance of rudeness. In the old rudeness, rules were made to keep people from intruding on your privacy. In the new civility, what’s rude is asking for privacy in any place that gets a signal, because you’re interfering with someone else’s rights of expression. By entering any public space, you are signing a generic release form, agreeing to be an extra in the blogs, feeds, webcasts and status updates of whoever else happens to be around.<\/p>\n

In this updated model, we are seven billion people, each preoccupied with our own individual broadcast. If for some reason, someone is bothering you by talking too loudly on their cellphone\u2026well, what’s stopping you from calling someone yourself, Mr. Selfish Solitude? And if the person you call is only half listening because he is playing “Modern Warfare 3″\u2026so? By trying to put restrictions on the behavior of others, aren’t you the one who’s being rude? What kind of an egomaniac are you to assume you’re so fascinating that everyone should just drop everything else they’re doing whenever you show up?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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