To your point about how civility needs to re-enter the entire human experience, our very own Herald has taken a giant step toward that goal with the introduction of the Civil Comments commenting system.  Now if they would just do something about the decidedly uncivil local columnists, Schwab and Burke that they publish, we'd be even further down the path to civility.  But, of course, they won't. I have a sneaking suspicion that the Herald is perfectly fine with Schwab and Burke's output and they rationalize it by invoking the "Trump exception" which basically states you can throw all journalistic ethics and standards out the window when the subject is Trump.