Civility 101: A draft
October 26th, 2007
We’ve been thinking for a while now about just how this civility thing might go, and all that thinking has produced some ideas. Just to confuse you, here’s our tickler:
Bring your human brain.
Hold opinion lightly at times.
Eat potato salad, make potato salad.
Recognize horse manure before tracking it.
Find the wedge. Lose the wedge.
Fight like Founding Fathers.
Get (un)personal.
Lose the evil “they.”
Build your vocabulary.
Remove punctuation
Meet your batty brain.
Hold discomfort.
Be a comparison shopper.
Elevate substance over symbolism.
Err on the side of laughter.
Next week we will jump right in to discussion about bringing your human brain and leaving your lizard brain at home (when you come to the Village Square AND - we might humbly suggest as long as we’re being bossy - when you drive and when you vote).
Entry Filed under: Politics as UNusual?, Village Square 101, Leadership, Civility 101
2 Comments Add your own
1. lea | October 26th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
remove punctuation and remove capital and never know when to use a comma so just use … whenever possible.
those are good rules too…
2. Liz | October 26th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
personally i think if there were much less punctuation there would be much more civility. . . punctuation is just so stressful. . .
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