Speaking of Solidarity….

researchers discover that nastiness is bad for you. A climate steeped in contempt rather than politeness produces contemptuous people. This bulletin from the “Water Found to be Wet” department is only controversial when we are riled up by questions of corporate vs. individual guilt after something like a major crime or assassination and everybody feels like this is an attempt to impute the crime to themselves. When the waters are not roiled by such naked attempts to make political hay, everybody knows there is something to the fact that an uncivil society produces uncivil people and that some of them, out at the end of the bell curve, will be murderously uncivil.