Reply #8: A few amateur observations

[Mike 03]

We protest a little bit when our nation is doing something abominable to another nation without probable cause, such as our outrageous invasion of Iraq.

We get very angry when we feel that our individual rights or income have been compromised, but we don't organize well; thus, our anger comes out in the form of ignored emails to our representatives.

We don't draw much inspiration from the more demonstrative protests in Europe, which we would probably do well to emulate.

Our rage seems to take the form of perverse acts of violence, like suicide, killing our children or parents, abducting strangers, blowing away people we work with, flying planes into office buildings, etc...

At this moment in history, I feel that we are too isolated to organize, and I think this is the result of trends in society that turn us against each other by training us to believe there are such limited resources that we are better off alone than in forming communities.

But I would love your opinion on my theory, since it is a bit odd.

EDIT: corrected spelling of "outrageous"