Opinion | Resolution for 2023: Let’s exercise civility and common decency

This is the season of excess: excessive spending and socializing, perhaps more this year due to the release from pandemic restrictions endured over the last two holiday seasons. Afterwards, we hear about people’s plans— or announce our own intentions — to eat healthily, drink less, exercise more.

A resolution is a firm decision to do or not do something. I won’t eat any more cake. I will declutter my closets. I will join a gym. The act of resolving is to find a solution to a conflict or problem, such as overconsumption.

Canadians are renowned apologists, yet gaffes and blunders abound as sensitivities rise and terminologies change. In lieu of seeking explanations and mutual understanding, we quickly seek to label — and then annihilate. Attacks are hurled at strangers based on the virtual realities of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Snippets of online information are manipulated and misinterpreted.

The World Wide Web casts its net even wider as we stream entertainment ripe with human dysfunction, balanced by the illusionary worlds of popular culture. Phones have cameras to document anything from how to ice a cake to crimes in progress — all striving for thousands of “likes.” Social media trends feed conventional journalism struggling to stay afloat, putting into question the standards of the once-worthy profession.

We inhabit a world where anonymity has clout and mob mentalities prevail. Society is bursting due to self-isolation, stifled voices and the fear — or lack of fear — of death. The killing of George Floyd broke the floodgates of protest open, regardless of physical distancing restrictions. Across the globe, truckers and farmers gathered to demonstrate their opposition to government control, supported by thousands.

The Prime Minister may want to lead the way. So far, his track record for civility has been abysmal.

Why start now?

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