tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937028913413732502.post3330217479632897161..comments2019-12-25T14:07:11.671+01:00Comments on blogging philosophy: ethics of falsified pleasantriesJoe Bigleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04720415946518139150noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937028913413732502.post-37870062630111309082009-10-13T07:51:52.401+02:002009-10-13T07:51:52.401+02:00To clarify.....
I advocate pleasantries in most ci...To clarify.....<br />I advocate pleasantries in most circumstances. I try, and think that it is not only appropriate but honorable, to take the time to be pleasant to the clerk behind the perpetual desk at whatever store. I typically as how he or she is doing even if it is not of particular interest. This falls under a scenario of stranger to stranger interaction that does contribute to a large scale sense of order mentioned in the above comment. This is where the widespread petpeeve of someone talking on a mobile phone during a public interaction that disrupts any dignified response to participating in the social realm of humanity. I am specifically talking about acquaintances where uncomfortableness may play a roll but if disinterestedness is more of culprit than why act interested. Do we project that that is how we would want others to treat us, with false interest as opposed to no interest at all?Joe Bigleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04720415946518139150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937028913413732502.post-54764160953223834802009-10-13T07:45:44.440+02:002009-10-13T07:45:44.440+02:00In response to Chernoff:
I can see how the falsifi...In response to Chernoff:<br />I can see how the falsification could be seen as out of our hands and judgment. That we are conditioned to carry ourselves with a falsity in the public domain as to keep some abstract sense of order on a scale larger than our own. But the falsities are in our hands because they are in our actions. We may be ignorant to how saturated they are in our daily experience but once acknowledged and understood as something that are not really in standing with personal interests or ideologies of conduct, ideas can be brought to light for a wider discourse to uncover parts of this behavior that may have been previously un-realized.Joe Bigleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04720415946518139150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937028913413732502.post-21192511523951437052009-10-13T07:40:56.865+02:002009-10-13T07:40:56.865+02:00In response Troutfish:
I am definitely not advocat...In response Troutfish:<br />I am definitely not advocating a more hostile commonplace public interaction. The fight or flight response is an interesting angle. Flight could be, in this particular case, not acknowledging the person at all and possibly accelerating one's rate of travel to avoid any possible contact, which could be see as rude, something else that I am not advocating, rudeness. A fight response could be to tell the person that you don't care about how they are or that you don't want to waste your time on them, again a rude response perhaps. I guess what I am idealizing is a middle ground. A feeling that we do not need to go out of our way to feel like we are interested in people that we are not. This would maintain the dignity of the pleasantries.Joe Bigleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04720415946518139150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937028913413732502.post-64147989982134525832009-10-12T21:57:37.330+02:002009-10-12T21:57:37.330+02:00Well Joe I think its more like we're uncomfort...Well Joe I think its more like we're uncomfortable with people we don't know. People basically size each other up and sometimes exagerate our experiences.<br /><br />Or it could our memory recall is warping our thinking so we are retelling a time with low accuracy. I guess this type of falsifying is either out of your hands or out of your judgement.Michael Chernoffhttp://michaelchernoff.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937028913413732502.post-82911559117838828692009-10-11T18:27:38.213+02:002009-10-11T18:27:38.213+02:00I definitely agree that there is too much passive ...I definitely agree that there is too much passive agreement in our world today, Biggs. Not enough people truly take delight in intellectual dissension. The ones that agree for the sake of agreement do not benefit themselves in anyway, other than avoiding conflict. It's sort of a way to flight instead of fighting, but without the running away. -TROUTFISH (sorry I can't sign in anyway other than anonymous):)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com