[Skybird]

But a social community that does not agree on rules anymore, and knows no limits in what it tolerates and what not - breaks apart sooner or later. Becasue you define yourself not only by what you agree to be yourself - but also by saying clearly what you are not, and do not want to be maybe - and thus, rejecting it.and nthat is the problem of the modern time: that we consider it to be a virtue to tolerate EVERYTHING, just because it is there, and we consider a dull sentence spoken by a drunk man after having six beers to be a cultural statement, and precious personal opinion that equals argument and must be valued, a proof of individual originality that must be respected. But that goes beyond what our communities can bear. We are loosing our cultural identities, we even engage in actively refusing them, we splitter. that way we become more and more vulnerable to other stuff, cultures, people, ideas that before were off-limit to our dying culture - we become prey to the negatives that before were unacceptable. Of course i know that killing an old man in the subway does not equal the couple in the above article. and of course I know that juveniles livng a punk-style of life somtimes use it to express protest against what they see as the rules of the adults (more often they are just anarchic and lazy, let's face it, at least that'S what it was like with the berlin scene in Kreuzberg in the 80s). Nevertheless, both the subway incident and the couple in the bus are symptoms of one and the same process of cultural erosion, and destruction of our cultural identity.