{"id":4327,"date":"2008-07-14T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2019-12-23T09:58:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:58:26","slug":"two-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/07\/14\/two-phrases\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5410,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.violentacres.com\\\/archives\\\/59&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/violentacres.com.jimfaulkner.net&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Nothing terribly new here, I&#8217;ll admit, but I just stumbled across this, and I&#8217;ve had this rant (or variations upon the theme) many times over the past few years: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.violentacres.com\/archives\/59\" title=\"Violent Acres: Two Phrases That Destroyed American Culture\">Two Phrases That Destroyed American Culture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The phrase \u2018The Customer is Always Right\u2019 is the single worst philosophy that has ever been adopted by American culture. It gave an entire generation of people the green light to be as impolite, unreasonable, and demanding as their little hearts desired because they <em>were always going to be considered right<\/em>. It destroyed the entire concept of courtesy and rendered manners obsolete. People began to treat their peers in the service industry like incompetent morons, lacking in feelings or human dignity, who deserved to be browbeaten and abused for no other reason than they had the audacity to run out of a particular brand of coffee. Furthermore, instead of suffering negative repercussions for their appallingly disrespectful behavior, they are awarded with free coupons and plenty of ass kissing. In reality, they should be shunned and humiliated for behaving like such self absorbed little children.<\/p>\n<p>  Speaking of respect, another idea that has ruined American culture is the one that states, \u2018I don\u2019t give respect freely. You have to <em>earn<\/em> my respect.\u2019 This one is most often uttered by punk kids with bad attitudes and black fingernail polish.<\/p>\n<p>  Fucking gag me.<\/p>\n<p>  I mean, how egotistical does one have to be to automatically assume that their respect is <em>so fucking important<\/em> that one must jump through multiples hoops in order to <em>earn<\/em> it? How about we give people respect because they are <em>humans<\/em> with <em>lives<\/em> and <em>feelings<\/em> just as important as our own? Why not give people a default level of respect and more or less can either be won or lost based on the behavior of the individual? The <em>loss<\/em> of respect is something that should be based on actions. The idea that that one must <em>win basic respect in the first place<\/em> is incredibly belittling. How narcissistic can you be to embrace that ideology?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;how egotistical does one have to be to automatically assume that their respect is _so fucking important_ that one must jump through multiples hoops in order to _earn_ it? How about we give people respect because they are _humans_ with _lives_ and _feelings_ just as important as our own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39,16],"class_list":["post-4327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}