I wonder how much of America's tendency to get mad slow (and burn very hot when we get to anger) is because we're all very busy living our own lives and barely have time to stop and think?
Having lived in other countries, most others have more free time. Now, they pay for it in various ways, mostly in reduced opportunities/ability to do things. BUT they still have more free time. Time to sit around in coffee shops and to se bavarder about politics. In the states, not so much. We still work, often even on weekends, just on things we want to work on, rather than our jobs.
On the other hand, all of the world is busier than it was, even a century ago. There are multiple reasons for this: mostly because the government takes so much of what we produce that even most women have to work outside the home. It's not a choice.
But also because well, even in the rest of the world it has become much easier to do or be or learn something else after work hours.
This is unheard of. Part of the reason for much slower narrative styles in the past is that people had a lot more free time filled with boredom. Well into the middle of last century.
Looking at the outrages perpetrated and the fact people haven't rebelled makes me wonder about... well, about the perennial "why people haven't rebelled yet."
Because we're busy. And tired.
Yes, demographics has to do with it. Demographics and corruption of education means most working-age people are working their behinds off.
And there is lack of ability to do much beyond being mad. Younger people, like in France, do have time to protest, usually on the stupid side, and that too is because they can't find work. (See corruption of education. And yes, Pope Francis is often an *sspopehat but when he said the biggest problem confronting the world was youth unemployment, he might not have been wrong. It's just that his solutions are likely to break everything.) But there aren't that many young people. So they're not going to be a force as they were in the sixties and even somewhat seventies.
This is why the Tea Parties and the Gillettes jeunes (I'm sure misspelled. It's been years, and I'm dyslexic) of France were a big deal. It was the Silver Hairs getting involved.
It should have been a warning to the governments and the social-distractors.
We're very busy, but not so busy that we can't be angry. And we're angry.
Remember mom and dad's injunction? Don't make me stop this car and come back there!
Well, if you make us stop our very busy lives and come back there, you won't like it. It won't be pretty.
But we'll take care of the problem fast and set things right, because we have work we need to get back to.
And we'll give the statists and the kakistokrats something to cry about.
We're almost at stop the car and come back there. I can feel it. And all I can do is pray it's not violent and doesn't set the world on fire.
Of course it's useless to tell the idiots to stop -- metaphorically -- touching their sister.
All we can do is keep our tempers hot but in check, and come up with solutions that don't burn everything down.
If you're a praying kind, pray.
Because it's going to be difficult. And we need a miracle.
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