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Going to the movies today usually puts me in the presence of a couple hundred inconsiderate loudmouthed idiotic boors. It certainly doesn’t make me happy, which is why I stopped going.
Indeed, almost any venture to any public event reminds one that rude, unthinking, lowbrow, crass and solipsistic are the defining adjectives of public life in America today.
Indeed, almost any venture to any public event reminds one that rude, unthinking, lowbrow, crass and solipsistic are the defining adjectives of public life in America today.
This from a commenter named, ironically enough, “Bartman”, at the Econlog blog.
No, I don’t know that this person is European, but I’ll guess he or she is.
Let me put forth a kind of reverse devil’s dictionary (or, thesaurus rather) to this person’s complaint:
(1) Rude: Forthright
(2) Unthinking: Whimsical
(3) Lowbrow: Folksy
(4) Crass: Ostentatious
(5) Solipsistic: Individualistic
Dry Hyphen Olympics 
>I have a sensitive nervous system — or so I think — so “rude” or “forthright” people tend to razzle me.Then again, I write blog posts passionately ripping into things…( :
>I tend to agree. Unless I’m in the right mood. THEN I like jovial and common-man, shlubby outbursts of stupid American antics.I’m fairly conflicted.