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desire to be active for instance: Children run where they want, when they want. Adults can not afford the luxury of immediate manifested impulses, for red tape known as social norms condemns such behavior. Where children are free to run aimlessly, adults are constrained by the concept of exercise. Running is permittable in a controlled environment (be it treadmill, track, or the 'liberal' city grid) with quantifiable conditions (distance and time). Jogging in a straight line for 30 minutes a day is like balancing a checkbook. Unnatural. To summarize, what was originally play is now work. To further understand the transition of playmates into associates, other behavioral patters demand scrutiny. For now, the idea of honesty.
honesty Just as the purity of play is sacrificed for efficiencies sake, so is the value of honesty. Whereas to be honest is to be truthful, adults often forgo the latter when such statements or behaviors run incongruently to a more esteemed trait, politeness. An attitude often unbeknown to children, politeness lies as a cornerstone principle of advanced parenting. For how can a child mature successfully void attributes of sophistication? More importantly, what is politeness in regards to honesty? Politeness is a situational appeasement device used to inhibit natural trajectories. Basically, objects move and objects collide, an inescapable truth of the universe. Atoms, tectonic plates, as well as honesty, are all inconsiderate of the ways and paths of others. And thus create collisions. Like compound molecular formations and the creation of mountain ranges, the honest |
exchange of contrasting ideas is a form of collision. A pile of spontaneity and chaos. Unplanned, unstructured, and unquantifiable – such ways are the antithesis to stacks. A source of great concern for modern adults indeed.
And yet despite failure to permanently inhibit volcanic eruptions, tides, and trade winds, capitalists have succeeded in the curtailment of the aforementioned social trait of honesty. A situational appeasement device known as politeness. A modern tool to increase order and efficiency. Like traffic lights, politeness aims to prevent conflicting behavior. To respect the trajectories of one another through inaction. (The paradoxical result: the creation of lines and queues, and the act of waiting itself, all in the name of efficiency.) Nevertheless. The problem, semantically speaking, exists when politeness is confused for more inherent and respectable traits, namely kindness, generosity, and empathy. For instance, aiding an elderly neighbor migrate a pile or two around her front yard can be a beautiful thing. That is if the act itself is truly desired. If one really wants to do something else, say watch TV, than help their neighbor, then one is inhibiting honestly. One is corrupting kindness. One is being polite. For politeness is not sincerity, it is an enforced sense of respect. A social obligation. A duty of maturity. The greatest conductor for such social guidelines is capitalistic by definition, the business world. With a minuet minority controlling the majority of all assets, a hierarchy has been created. A ladder for the ambitious to obsess over. Such power disequilibriums prohibit disagreement from the lower sanctions. |
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