In the name of openness, our society is amnesiac to decency. The phenomenon could easily be caught in the eyes, among others, from shallow criticism, hollow nosiness and overt bootlicking.
Body shape and choice of clothes are nonchalantly criticised. True, everybody has their own preference. However, in the old days, it was a taboo to sneer at others in-your-face which would be treated as barbaric. But now, kids just love to point fingers at others, even with a big smile hang in their face. "Respect" has been evicted from the dictionary.
Nosiness has demolished the threshold of privacy. Some people, could never be described as your friends and just barely be labelled as your "acquaintances" , would love to investigate any family tree. While they sniff something, no matter the triviality, once they are on, they would bite it until the bone is seen. Unfortunately, you could never glimpse their life in the same way.
Bootlicking, generally speaking, is not a problem. However, its overt execution is abhorrent. Say, in front of 20 colleagues, somebody would just praise the boss without his/her face reddened. It would be a shame that this somebody does not know, on one hand, by shining boss boots publicly, he/she has just made 20 foes; on the other hand, the effectiveness is usually suspicious.
In this silly world, maybe subtlety has become stupidity whilst vulgarity amounts to smarties.
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