A few days ago, they almost fell on my head.
A boy jumped into the lane where I was swimming (designated for swimmers only) at the Country Club pool and miraculously I survived.
In a rare moment of supreme restraint, I asked him in an educational tone: "Why are you jumping on me?" His response was decisive: "Shut up" - accompanied by a squirt in his face.
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Moments like these, which leave you boiling and helpless, have become very common in our circles (I'll spare you the daily experiences from the locker room), and the question that always arises: Why does this happen?
Most explanations focus on three factors: education, enforcement, and punishment. But there is another factor that is suppressed from the discourse because it seemingly contradicts the dictates of political correctness.
I pay quite a bit of money for a pool membership and generally get a good return on my investment. But I would like the service to filter out the wild ones. I humbly accept that no warning sign and no lifeguard or supervisor will allow me to exercise in a civilized and safe atmosphere, and therefore I assume that only a "sterile space" will provide the answer.
Unfortunately, in today's reality this is impossible, as selection (of any kind) is perceived as arrogance and racism (its connotation is also terrible). The only one that the public "digests" is based on age - like hotels or entertainment venues for adults only (and even then there are those who try to "steal the border").
There is no doubt that the permission to filter and sift is dangerous, as it invites arbitrariness, insults, and discrimination. We have already witnessed this more than once in the dance club culture. From a practical point of view, it is also difficult to implement this without offending many.
In the past, money was a kind of indirect social filter, due to the large economic gaps that existed between classes. But today everyone is "middle class" and savagery is the domain of the rich and the poor, the educated and the ignorant alike.
No one wants to return to the aristocratic era, where "masters" lived separately from "servants." But if the price of equality is a vulgar and violent social environment and unbearable daily life, more and more people will seek a "separation of powers.".
Currently, the public is dealing with the problem mainly in the "gray market": admissions committees, purchasing groups, membership cards, etc. This is a phenomenon that is slowly expanding because neither the law nor the media look upon it favorably.
I believe that the more moments of helplessness, like the one I experienced, multiply, the more the phenomenon of gray selection will grow. It will not necessarily turn the democratic wheel back, but rather force the savages to align themselves with the club of politeness, consideration for others, and destructiveness.
