Monday 12 August 2013

Chivalry Is Dead, Long Live Individualism

Inspired by the words and experiences of a wise Scunthorpe-based soul, I bring to you the decline of chivalry and all common manners and the entrance into the deluded filth of individualism and the stagnating cesspool of disregard for one's fellow-men.

In today's modern consumer-centric me-first society, manners have fallen below the parapet of expected behaviour, and into the realm of exasperatingly surprising irregularity.
To exemplify my point, I take you back to previous Saturday, when on the motorised transport system of the vehicular bus, a particularly disgusting individual (of the physical and character level) sat next to me. Now this moronic cretin immediately began perusing his electronic distraction device and thus became immersed in the all-familiar world of escapist self-centeredism.

Now this doesn't sound that bad, however, when an elderly woman entered the bus, this individualistic character, did not even acknowledge or move out of his seat for the elderly lady. Instead he continued to peruse his machine. He was so engrossed that even myself asking him to move so I could offer the woman a seat, aroused no interest in the self-consumed individual.

Here people, is the decline of manners and chivalry. The days of one thinking outside of one-self are all but a distant memory, entrapped in the past along with black and white TV, cholera and serfdom. Instead what we have in today's modern society is self-centrist ignorance of the masses. Chivalry is dead, instead we have a nothing but yourself attitude to all things which do not immediately pertain to individualistic desires in teh quick-fix, one-hour photo culture of today.

Rant over guys, not that you're reading anyways.

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