Civility Today

Here at Civility Today , we try to keep everything clean. We understand and express appropriate etiquette . We understand and express appropriate hygiene . Cleanliness has many aspects. What does being clean mean to you in various contexts?

Investigating possible abuses , including the abuse of power, is an important and useful activity for any advocate of civility. How do you account for elder abuse in Australia , and elsewhere? What do you know about abuse in relation to age, gender and money ? How do you account for poverty in Australia , and elsewhere, especially when it affects children , adolescents, young adults and older women ? What is your acquaintance with social inequality , in theory and in practice? What is your acquaintance with extortion in Australia , and elsewhere? What is your acquaintance with the history of Australian currency ? What do you know about how that currency has been used and abused by rich, rude persons in Australia at various times in history? What is your acquaintance with tokenism in Australia, and elsewhere? Why does freedom of speech only adequately apply on the floor of parliament? Why does freedom from verbal abuse and blatant lies not apply anywhere? One of the most important t...

How often have you explored Civility Today over recent months, and for what purpose? What is your preferred approach to investing in evidence , and why?  How, if at all, do you assess your goals in terms of usefulness? As you have been investing in importantly useful information here, what have been your reasons for doing so? How do you assess usefulness in relation to your expectations ? What are your expectations when investing in useful inventions ? How do you identify the people most likely to express opposition to your interpersonal expectations? Perhaps you do not usually expect opposition to usefulness, especially if you are inadequately acquainted with history . Civility is useful because it is reasonable. All reasonableness is useful to the maintenance of civility. All participants in quaternary educational practices are expected, as prerequisites, to be competent researchers, and therefore relatively unbiased.  That is why knowledge and experience of investing in...

Do you regard civility as an invention or as something quite natural? How can civility be improved by investing in useful inventions ? What is you acquaintance with quality project management in relation to useful inventions?  How do you decide whether an invention is useful or not? Civility Today is an invention in itself.  It is a relatively new approach to journalism, and education, and towards the philanthropic distribution of necessary information. How do you usually think about expectations in relation to inventions? How and where do you usually volunteer your inventiveness, and how usefully? Are you aware that an opinion is a form of invention? Perhaps you do not regard moral boundaries as inventions of the imagination. All inventions are inventions of the imagination, even when put into practice through various products, tools and collaborators. Human-made laws are inventions, as are responses to them. Civility is a very useful invention indeed.  Its main purp...

While accurate descriptions are important, accurate definitions are even more important. How do you define the meaning of civility, in theory and in practice? How do you attempt to embody that definition? It may not yet have occurred to you that, in Australia at least, civility is currently a subversive act by definition. Civility does not involve the expression of inappropriate opinions on popular culture, if mentioning it at all. Indeed, civility does not involved the expression of any inappropriate opinions, in any circumstance.  It does, however, involve the expression of insightful points of view regarding the development of cultural practices, including cultural practices associated with civility itself.  What is your opinion on the meaning of civility? What is your definition of politics ?  How do you define political reality? How honest are you when composing definitions, examining beliefs, identifying problems, developing policies and implementing possi...

Yesterday, the 300th daily presentation was displayed here . How do you usually display love, and towards whom, or what, and where? Do you love anything about Australia and/or Australians? Perhaps you love one particular Australian, or a few Australians, or none at all. Perhaps you love a particular part of Australia or Australia in its entirety, or no part of Australia at all. What do you know about Australians in relation to experiences of love? What do you know about Australians in relation to experiences of civility? What do you know about Australians in relation to experiences of integrity? Why is it so difficult for Australians to elect persons of integrity to positions of political influence? What is your awareness of the structure of official and unofficial Australian governance? What do you know about Australian standards of conduct?  What is your acquaintance with the Australian Constitution ? What do you know about money in Australia? What do you know about the conse...

What do you know about the art and science of self-preservation ? What do you know about wildlife conservation and wildlife management ?  How are you investing in conservation , and where, and why? Justice is not a project.  It is an expression of love. Predatory persons are incapable of the empathy associated with the love of justice. Influential bullies, regardless of their fame or income, usually feel the need to protect themselves, and possibly the people they claim to love, from the aggressive minions of other influential bullies. Justice arises through real love, like peace and civility and truth, not through industry. Perhaps you think justice is a luxury. Perhaps you think love is a luxury. Perhaps you think hope is a luxury. Perhaps you think civility, peace and truth are luxuries. Perhaps you think love is an industry. What do you know about love in relation to security ? Industries are collections of business activities.  Yet many activities, whether relate...

What will your legacy be? Will it be a protective one or a dangerous one? Will it be one reflective of justice or one reflective of injustice? Will it be one reflective of good planning or one reflective of the opposite? If you wish to be remembered for a good legacy, what will it be, and who will implement it? What have you already provided the world as a civility legacy? What sort of inheritance have you received, and why? What sort of inheritance do you expect to receive, and why? What sort of inheritance do you expect to leave behind, and for whose benefit? Who deserves to inherit from you, and how? How do you tell the difference between a useful legacy and a useless, or even, problematic, one? What are you seeking to bequeath in support of the second Age of Enlightenment, and how will you do so ? Many areas of the world, including in Australia, have been or become disaster zones , with or without adequate local government planning laws.     It is impossible to li...

 What does altruism mean to you?

There are many aspects to scarcity .  How do you usually assess the subject of scarcity? How do you usually assess any subject? To whom do you ask questions about scarcity, and why? How do you usually assess scarcity in relation to trade ? What do you know about artificial scarcity ? How do you think about scarcity in relation to life itself?  How do you think about scarcity in relation to politics ? How do you think about scarcity in relation to courage ?

What are your habits and how did you acquire them? Who assesses your habits , and why?

How do you define the word merit , and why?  What is the point of view upon which that definition is based? What are your views about meritocracy ?

When corruption arises, what does that say about inadequacies in a society's constitution ? Populists blame well-informed intellectuals for societal ills and falsely accuse them of being elitist.  They ignore the truth about incompetence and corruption. Populists, by definition, are incompetent.  When they gain political power, they inevitably encourage corruption.  They have nothing to offer towards the improvement of democracy . Well-informed intellectuals have the ability to identify incompetence, and corruption, including political corruption .  That is why they are viewed as threats by populists, including populist members of elites. Whether well-informed intellectuals are willing and able to inform the public about the truth of corruption, in a suitably coherent way, is another matter entirely. In a two-party system of purportedly representative democracy, whichever of the two parties forms government is likely to be incompetent and/or corrupt, in much th...

How often are your investigations associated with science ? How often are your investigations associated with disability ? How consistently do your investigations express the essence of civility? How do you investigate societal problems? How do you investigate ways to solve those problems? How do you investigate environmental problems? How do you investigate ways to solve those problems? How are your investigations associated with moderation ? How are your investigations associated with the public interest ? How do you compare approaches to investigations ?

Where do you usually locate assistance regarding ethics ? Where do you usually locate assistance regarding industry ? Do you usually locate assistance regarding ethics and industry in the same place? Where do you usually locate assistance regarding politics ? Where have you looked for assistance regarding enlightened moderation ? Where do you usually locate assistance to help you assess accountability ?