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» redback - Some Interesting Comments

Your link refers to printed media only? Of course as you know, there's the 'net, TV, public hearings, even mobile phones etc etc.

In my other life, probably 1985?, the boss did an experiment on 100% of the routine info that passed through our office that HAD to be read. She read all instructions etc and found she could not do that AND her job. She found staff read operational instructions so the system did not stuff up, pay and condition changes in case they missed out on money BUT had no time to read ANY policy instructions on how to do their job the right way. The purpose of this was to improve communication flows..towards a 'paperless' office. Remember that ideal??? There is now printout overload and email rage!

You indicate people's relative rudeness is primarily a reaction to excess PC if I read you right. Undisciplined displays of 'rudeness' existed long before the need to introduce laws trying to manage this...to encourage people to leave their attitudes at home. These gradually got abused to the extent PC was solely a derisive term by a public barely paying lip service to it in the first place. I'm thinking abuse has been in our genes since at least 'Adam's' children.

Paper Turtle shows us the definition.

I ponder the many references to the alleged ill-informed among us, even here. Information is not only about information you want. Apparently, even the Bible couldn't fit all the information about Jesus into it and I sure as bleep can't read all the worthwhile topics within suite101, let alone 100% of the multimedia's desire to tell me something for myself or for me to pass it on to another who has less access.

YEP, I think there's the potential for overload and victims of it. I hope to maintain the discipline to avoid it so I'll be logging off for awhile.

-- posted by redback