By the way. In case you are under the impression that people care what you think? Guess again, because they don’t. Not even those closest to you. There was a time when the family dinner table was the place where thoughts and ideas may be exchanged. even including the children, but those days are long past and the responsibility for children has migrated to the state and families, if they even have a meal together, rarely discuss anything in fear of some sort of retribution for another member. The same is with those we cll friends, only discussing how. long the gras is getting or work colleagues, never venturing outside the box they’re in, daily. Why? We’ve become so fractured as a society, that the prohibited topics have moved well beyond politics and religion, to anything cultural. It doesn’t matter how insignificant the topic may appear, someone will take offense (or pretend to take offense). No one wants to even try to listen to each other, and we have no one to blame but ourselves. Our leaders are our worst example and many believe, it seems, that this behavior is now normal. It isn’t it’s destructive and we should be doing ll we cn do dissociate ourselves from it. It’s time to bring back courtesy.