[benatkin]

Good point, I ninja edited just before you posted to say that a chunk of them have been mislead by televangelists and such.

I can tell Thich Nhat Hanh appreciated the people you're talking about, having read about him traveling all around the world and meeting people from the US (where he lived for quite some time) and countless other countries.

[quacked]

Ah, there's the edit, right.

One of the principles that I hold to pretty strongly is that the more performatively famous someone is surrounding a certain idea, the more likely it is that they don't have any real principles, and they're just beating whatever drum allows them to continue to hold influence over people. So someone like Pat Robertson doesn't actually believe what he's saying in private, but if he kept banging that drum he kept his lifestyle and acolytes. I think the majority of US politicians that people recognize by name are like that, and certainly most religious leaders like Pat or Joel Osteen.

[civilitty]

I think that generalizes to all human interactions. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life [1] is the canonical work on this topic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Presentation_of_Self_in_Ev...