Question

MAGAZINE ARTICLE ON THE VALUE OF GOOD BEHAVIOR AND COURTESY IN TODAY'S WORLD

Answer 1

Honorificabilitudinitatibus

Answer 2

hey there ^_^

Politeness, courtesy, niceness, manners. I find these qualities missing in many aspects of contemporary business. People increasingly just don't see the need to bother with this stuff.

I was reminded of this as I re-read a fine, still-zeitgeist-attuned article by Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal from several years ago titled, We Pay Them To Be Rude To Us. Ms. Noonan states, "American culture is, one way or another, business culture and our business is service. Once we were a great industrial nation. Now we are a service economy."

Noonan says the social implications of this are making us confused and crazy. "We wear away the superego and get straight to the id, and what we see isn't pretty." She describes a revolution in manners. "We tore [manners] down as too fancy, or sexist, or ageist, or revealing of class biases. Just when we needed more than ever the formality and agreed-upon rules of manners to act as guard rails, we threw them aside. And now no one knows how to act anymore."

hope it helps ^_^