You should read On Doing the Right Thing, a collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock. In one essay he talks about this sort of thing. He opines that a soceity is immature if it can't have conversations. Archive: https://archive.org/details/OnDoingTheRightThing Mises: https://mises.org/library/book/doing-right-thing https://mises.org/mises-daily/decline-conversation