civility

Sometimes I wonder whether we are really in a civil society. This feeling strikes my mind when I am deprived of civility in replies I get from some people. This reminds me how "Civilised life has grown altogether too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting...sometimes in an unconscious or sub-conconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams....the man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others."