Nice is not really the point, though. You can be perfectly polite and simultaneously violently hostile to the idea that you should understand anything about the

Nice is not really the point, though. You can be perfectly polite and simultaneously violently hostile to the idea that you should understand anything about the way that things actually work, and that the structure of civilisation will simply construct itself around your demands and protect you from any of those details. And that process which does take place and largely constitutes what passes for modern life is then under the power and observation of parties who do understand how the underlying sausage gets made, how the parties whom they serve think and how they will react and behave. Is it any wonder they then proceed to arrange their products and services to benefit from the nature of the parties whom they serve, even in an increasingly ruthless fashion? If people behave like cattle en masse, sooner or later a rancher will show up.