“Of Gratitude and Platitude” The main point of this article is about the discourtesy and change in behavior of people in the modern day society. There has been a dramatic change in the ideologies of the people. People are becoming more and more uncivilized and lacking respect and they are not showing the respect that once used to be shown. There are many examples given by the author to support it. The way of showing …showed first 75 words of 660 total…

…showed last 75 words of 660 total…good one “. The writer says that the real problem is we expect at least meaningful or at least social interactions from essentially anonymous encounters. The writer says that we confuse informality, indifference and insincerity with being majorly and personally dissed. The writer intends to say that many people are not and do not intend to be discourteous but mainly informality and indifference confuses us. The writer says there is some intentional discourtesy though. The writer