“Old woman moralizes at cloud”
Those ‘good old days’ she harkens back to weren’t so good for a lot of people who didn’t look like her or live in her neighborhood. She and her ilk are concerned about the veneer of civility, of the performative politeness that people used to have to show to the privileged in our society; not being a better society, but maintaining for the privileged the illusion they’re part of a better society.
Capitalism rewards psychopaths.
I can assure you this goes back well before capitalism
Bad behavior goes back forever, but many cultures dealt with it as a community. A person acting out was seen as a symptom of a group problem.
Now, with everything hyper individualized, and with capitalism in its metastatic era, it’s nearly impossible to hold anyone accountable when they can just flip around and say, “I wanted the money,” and a solid 20% of the population will attack anyone who says that shouldn’t be the primary driver of our society.
Opens a history book about the Middle Ages
Workers had a lot more free time in the Middle Ages but couldn’t read and had religion forced upon them.
This article confuses following a protocol with good behavior and even politeness. It also ignores the abusive behaviors of the past, which sometimes were more subtle but others not quite - we don’t have to go that far back in public memory to get to the point where open racism or sexism was not only allowed everywhere but almost expected.
People are getting crazy. Microplastic poisoning? Lead?
The western manufactured diet isn’t helping. What’s great for long term shelf like and better taste to increase sales isn’t necessarily on the same level of what’s healthy for us even in moderation. I mean this beyond the normal what’s banned in other country stuff.
As time goes on they will continue to link physical and mental health issues to diet even though the money is being spent instead on the latest thing being great for profit margins and here’s why we think so…
Those that can put in the work and time to grow their own foods will often live healthier and better lives. I’m in too lazy at times bucket myself but a part of me knows I’m going to pay for it in the long term.
The worst end of behavior is genuinely worse now than it has been for a long time. There have always been problems with it, particularly related to prejudice and class, but casual violence in public was very unusual through most of the previous century. People physically attacking waiters, store clerks, and flight attendants over minor frustrations is a recent development. People sending death threats to strangers as a way of expressing disagreement is mostly new. (As an example, open source software developers now routinely get death threats over bugs or a failure to add particular features.)
Many things that used to be recognized and widely condemned as dangerous behavior have become normalized. Any behavior we accept as “normal” will become so. Is this the world we aspire to?
If only the DHS or FBI, having tapped everyone’s cell phones, would actively police those sending the death threats.
…if only…sigh
Since they don’t, it appears that this is the society they prefer for us all to live in, which is even more chilling, imo.
Physicality doesn’t scare me. People can see fuckwads like this OK Rep threatening fist fights and think they can do the same, but in America, where people pack heat to go to the playground, the dumb few who fuck around will find out real fast, and then those behind them thinking the same will watch as no charges come up due to stand your ground laws and basic self-defense survival instincts.
The public is being primed to lash out prior to the election. They’ll try to raise the heat without it boiling over until next November, then everything is on the table, and rules only apply to the surviving losing actors. Just watch. The playbooks as old as time.
in America, where people pack heat to go to the playground, the dumb few who fuck around will find out real fast
The problem is those packing heat are also people, also with the same issues. What makes you assume the dumb few who fuck around are not also packing heat?
This is actually a big reason I’ve been coming over to the side of gun control. For whatever reason these horrible behaviors seem to be becoming more common or there’s less peer pressure preventing it, the last thing we need is to combine that with lethal weapons
