Very sad today.
Reading about - and listening to - the small business owners, and those who live above them, scraping along nobly in our Big Society only to have the already threadbare rug of life and livelihood whipped so cruelly, so thoughtlessly, from beneath them by unthinking youths brought up to be resentful of enterprise and of business and of authority (any authority) by parents and community leaders too willing to provide them with an excuse, an alibi, for why they are spectators of, and not participants in, our society - big or otherwise.
The reaction?
On the one hand, we have the baying mob - those who shout for water cannon, for plastic bullets, for the army. The eye-for-an-eye mob, those whose only response to a counter-argument, is to say "yes, but if you were affected, you would feel differently" - than you? Who are also not affected, yet who have this opinion? I resent that people think I would be so weak-minded and weak of character and unconfident in my opinions, that they think I would waver, much less change my opinion, if I were "on the other side".
Reading about - and listening to - the small business owners, and those who live above them, scraping along nobly in our Big Society only to have the already threadbare rug of life and livelihood whipped so cruelly, so thoughtlessly, from beneath them by unthinking youths brought up to be resentful of enterprise and of business and of authority (any authority) by parents and community leaders too willing to provide them with an excuse, an alibi, for why they are spectators of, and not participants in, our society - big or otherwise.
The reaction?
On the one hand, we have the baying mob - those who shout for water cannon, for plastic bullets, for the army. The eye-for-an-eye mob, those whose only response to a counter-argument, is to say "yes, but if you were affected, you would feel differently" - than you? Who are also not affected, yet who have this opinion? I resent that people think I would be so weak-minded and weak of character and unconfident in my opinions, that they think I would waver, much less change my opinion, if I were "on the other side".
