Time to Return to Medieval Courtesy Books

The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property ^ | August 27, 2021 | John Horvat II

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

To the “woke” crowd, teaching civility and manners favors artificial concepts that reinforce power structures and control behavior. This Marxist perspective reduces everything to the class struggle terms of oppressor and oppressed. For this reason, manners must be eradicated and never taught to vulnerable children.

So many things today reflect this anti-manners mentality. This trend can be seen in brutal and obscene speech or texting. It is found in ugly, dirty and torn clothing. Coddled children absorb this lack of manners from uncouth adults, who fail to impose rules lest they hurt feelings.

Indeed, in the Marxist worldview, Western civilization is the culprit for manners and all things racist, colonialist and evil. Hence, children must be protected from courtesy and manners that transmit this civilization’s artificial and hateful values to future generations.

Not Noble Little Savages

Like Rousseau before them, those who hate manners long to return to pre-modern, even medieval times, when things were more tribal, natural and spontaneous. Pre-modern children were “noble little savages” who ran about wildly without supervision. Ribald scenes of medieval revelry and feasting are the revolutionary ideal.

However, such depictions are figments of postmodern imaginations. “This image of ill-mannered chaos is much more of a contemporary invention than one true to the Middle Ages,” writes medieval scholar Prof. Kathryn Walton.

Indeed, medieval times developed manners and courtesy. Children were taught to behave not like little savages but little Christians who respected others. They learned the rules of good living.

[Little Ray]

George Washington wrote such a book. It might prove to be useful.

https://smile.amazon.com/Washingtons-Civility-Behavior-Company-Conversation/dp/155709103X