[trashtensor]

So this person has a few good reasons (and one bad one) and instead of doing some deeper analysis on those reasons they come up with

> The most important story about why Americans have become sad and alienated and rude, I believe, is also the simplest: We inhabit a society in which people are no longer trained in how to treat others with kindness and consideration.

And then spends like 2000 words talking about training people to be more polite as a solution. What an awful article.

[otterley]

Why do you believe his proposed solution is a bad one?

[trashtensor]

Why would it be a solution? It's just painting over the cracks.