Oiling the wheels --- Good example, thank you Liliana. Courtesy 'oils the wheels'. Helping things to run smoothly usually benefits everybody.

Teenagers go through a stage where they feel that these little niceties are irrelevant and ultimately unhelpful, but as MacOswald suggested in his earlier post, we come to learn that alienating other parties is potentially even more unhelpful. Greta Thunberg's intransigence, as many of you have suggested, is probably a symptom of her youth and one she will likely grow out of as she comes to appreciate the benefits of collaboration.

Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu