In modern America, a popular greeting in business, pleasure, or home life is: "How [are] you doing?"
99% of people will respond "Good. You?"
That other 1% of responses is usually someone telling you that their car broke down, they just got diagnosed with cancer, lost their job, or they're having a psychotic break and telling you the Reptilians have arrived.
So...one usually hopes to just hear, "Good". No person you're having a formal greeting with at work, while paying for services, or at a club/bar really wants to hear about your personal trials and tribulations. This greeting has become a sort of vestigial formality from small-town periods when everyone really wanted to know what the rest of their neighbors were up to.
It kind of strikes me as weird in today's fast paced techno-urban society. People usually just mumble it quickly and continue with their business. What other humanistic formalities still exist that don't make sense in modernity?
99% of people will respond "Good. You?"
That other 1% of responses is usually someone telling you that their car broke down, they just got diagnosed with cancer, lost their job, or they're having a psychotic break and telling you the Reptilians have arrived.
So...one usually hopes to just hear, "Good". No person you're having a formal greeting with at work, while paying for services, or at a club/bar really wants to hear about your personal trials and tribulations. This greeting has become a sort of vestigial formality from small-town periods when everyone really wanted to know what the rest of their neighbors were up to.
It kind of strikes me as weird in today's fast paced techno-urban society. People usually just mumble it quickly and continue with their business. What other humanistic formalities still exist that don't make sense in modernity?
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