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Issues that people don't seem to make such a big deal of like they once did
Here is a list of certain issues, events, etc, that were once heavily the subject of day-to-day conversations and featured extensively in the news, but are seemingly mentioned much less now than before (in no particular rank order) or at least kept lower-key, despite almost all of them still existing in some form or another.
Covid (most recent).
AIDS/HIV.
Binge drinking/late-night aggro in town centres, etc.
Teenage pregnancies.
Feral youngsters.
'Ch@v' culture.
Happy slapping.
Joyriding.
Conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
ISIS and Al-Queda.
The EDL, Britain First, etc.
Violent films and 'video nasties' in general.
'Explicit' content in popular music (not just profanity).
Muggings.
Armed robberies of shops, banks, etc.
To name but a few.
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Do you need these issues to be prominently included in the news, Lenco?
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Originally Posted by
pulisa
Do you need these issues to be prominently included in the news, Lenco?
Not necessarily Pulisa. I'm just curious as they were once big topics but seemingly seldom discussed today, even though most of them still haven't actually gone away.
Plus I'm quite happy in some ways that they're kept lower-key nowadays as I felt the media often overdid many of them at the time, though of course Covid was necessary, especially earlier in the pandemic when there were a lot of unknowns and when vaccines were still yet to be developed.
Some of the issues/events/topics I mentioned in my OP were frequently considered symptoms of 'Broken Britain' during the latter half of the 2000s, which in itself has hardly been mentioned for about 10 years now.
But the media and public opinion moves on I guess.
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Originally Posted by
pulisa
As you must, Lenco?
I guess so, yes.
Seems I was right when back in around mid 2020 when Covid was (obviously) the number one concern, I remember saying on here that I bet the media will have probably moved on to the next big 'issue(s)' by 2023, even though Covid as a whole still hasn't gone away, but nevertheless appears to be far less newsworthy of late.
And fast forward another 3 years to 2026, the media in turn will have no doubt moved on to whatever issues are current/relevant by then.
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Pulisa has a point. Might it not be worth focusing on the present and making a life for yourself in the here and now.
I always say it, you always ignore it, but why not look into getting out into the world a little more? You'd be invaluable to somewhere like the British Heart Foundation, who sell second-hand electronics.
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Re: Issues that people don't seem to make such a big deal of like they once did
Also -
Witches.
Hitler.
The price of mead.
The Plague.
The Empire.
How Thomas Newcomen is ruining the donkey industry.
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Re: Issues that people don't seem to make such a big deal of like they once did
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Originally Posted by
Lencoboy
I guess so, yes.
You've no more chance of 'moving on' from these things as I have with King Chaz and his side-chick Queen. THOSE PAIR GRIND ALL MY GEARS. THE INJUSTICE!!! ARRRGHHHHH!!! :mad:
Autistics have the tenacity of limpets when it comes to shizzle they feel passionately about. (My English teacher got a taste of this when I handed in a 20 page essay on Duran Duran in 82 ha ha)
The Neurotypical Guide of How to Live With an Autistic Human..
Rule number 3: Let them bang on about stuff you have no interest in...
Amma right, Len? :yesyes:
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This is true, Nora, but we don’t live with him ;)
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Originally Posted by
NoraB
You've no more chance of 'moving on' from these things as I have with King Chaz and his side-chick Queen. THOSE PAIR GRIND ALL MY GEARS. THE INJUSTICE!!! ARRRGHHHHH!!! :mad:
Autistics have the tenacity of limpets when it comes to shizzle they feel passionately about. (My English teacher got a taste of this when I handed in a 20 page essay on Duran Duran in 82 ha ha)
The Neurotypical Guide of How to Live With an Autistic Human..
Rule number 3: Let them bang on about stuff you have no interest in...
Amma right, Len? :yesyes:
Yes you are Nora, despite the fact that sadly there's still far too many people out there who see us Auties as a hindrance and seem to long for the days before 'PC-gone-mad' when and where they could be as ableist as they pleased with impunity, both physically and verbally.
I never forget those condescending words from a couple of staff members at college back in the mid 90s who blatantly said that I would probably never be employed by anyone as they thought I was too slow, distant, and therefore a hindrance to them alone. Needless to say, I called it quits there soon after.
In fact, that particular college has a long-running track record for chaotic management, general lack of accountability, blame culture and endless chopping and changing of things. My mom actually worked there herself from 2004 through to 2013 when she finally retired, so I heard plenty of iffy stuff about the place.
I bet your teacher wasn't too enthusiastic about Duran Duran though, and no doubt believed they were a corrupting influence on kids at the time, even though they seemed relatively tame compared to certain other acts, both then and now. Incidentally, their 1982 hit 'Hungry Like The Wolf' reminded me of a staff member at the nursery I attended at the age of 3 1/2 in late 1980-early 1981 who reeked to high heaven of BO, and inadvertently stank the whole place out, which I covered in another thread on here last year.
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Wow, you're unpleasant.
You're not automatically entitled to people's attention and support. I think this is something that a lot of autistic men in particular never learn, their mindset is static because nobody's ever expected them to grow emotionally or make any sort of effort to get on with others.
It's a disability, not an excuse.
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Originally Posted by
NoraB
You've no more chance of 'moving on' from these things as I have with King Chaz and his side-chick Queen. THOSE PAIR GRIND ALL MY GEARS. THE INJUSTICE!!! ARRRGHHHHH!!! :mad:
Autistics have the tenacity of limpets when it comes to shizzle they feel passionately about. (My English teacher got a taste of this when I handed in a 20 page essay on Duran Duran in 82 ha ha)
The Neurotypical Guide of How to Live With an Autistic Human..
Rule number 3: Let them bang on about stuff you have no interest in...
Amma right, Len? :yesyes:
But it's still ok to challenge them when it gets intolerable for the person having to live with them.
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Originally Posted by
BlueIris
Wow, you're unpleasant.
You're not automatically entitled to people's attention and support. I think this is something that a lot of autistic men in particular never learn, their mindset is static because nobody's ever expected them to grow emotionally or make any sort of effort to get on with others.
It's a disability, not an excuse.
Absolutely.
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Originally Posted by
Lencoboy
Yes you are Nora, despite the fact that sadly there's still far too many people out there who see us Auties as a hindrance and seem to long for the days before 'PC-gone-mad' when and where they could be as ableist as they pleased with impunity, both physically and verbally.
I never forget those condescending words from a couple of staff members at college back in the mid 90s who blatantly said that I would probably never be employed by anyone as they thought I was too slow, distant, and therefore a hindrance to them alone. Needless to say, I called it quits there soon after.
In fact, that particular college has a long-running track record for chaotic management, general lack of accountability, blame culture and endless chopping and changing of things. My mom actually worked there herself from 2004 through to 2013 when she finally retired, so I heard plenty of iffy stuff about the place.
I bet your teacher wasn't too enthusiastic about Duran Duran though, and no doubt believed they were a corrupting influence on kids at the time, even though they seemed relatively tame compared to certain other acts, both then and now. Incidentally, their 1982 hit 'Hungry Like The Wolf' reminded me of a staff member at the nursery I attended at the age of 3 1/2 in late 1980-early 1981 who reeked to high heaven of BO, and inadvertently stank the whole place out, which I covered in another thread on here last year.
Wouldn't you like to work though? Prove them wrong. There's more to life than your fear of "The Media".
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I was in my 30s before I was able to get more than temp or contract work, Lenco, despite going out of my way to get myself qualified for a specific role.
Happiness is out there, and fulfilment, but not if you bury yourself in old resentments and refuse to engage with the world.
I also note that you seem to have minimal tolerance for the health conditions and foibles of others.
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Originally Posted by
BlueIris
Wow, you're unpleasant.
You're not automatically entitled to people's attention and support. I think this is something that a lot of autistic men in particular never learn, their mindset is static because nobody's ever expected them to grow emotionally or make any sort of effort to get on with others.
It's a disability, not an excuse.
I just wish I was sectioned or sentenced to imprisonment for once and for all. Especially as I've been told I'm unpleasant.
Then I'll be out of sight, out of mind and won't be a hindrance to society any longer.
In fact, I won't even be posting on this forum any longer and I'm naffing off for good.
See you all, Bye!
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Originally Posted by
Lencoboy
I just wish I was sectioned or sentenced to imprisonment for once and for all. Especially as I've been told I'm unpleasant.
Then I'll be out of sight, out of mind and won't be a hindrance to society any longer.
In fact, I won't even be posting on this forum any longer and I'm naffing off for good.
See you all, Bye!
The pity card? Really? BIWISI :whistles:
FMP
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Re: Issues that people don't seem to make such a big deal of like they once did
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Originally Posted by
pulisa
But it's still ok to challenge them when it gets intolerable for the person having to live with them.
Of course it is, but if you're talking about the NT/autistic dynamic, then I'd argue (from personal experience) that it's not always the autistic person that's causing the problem...
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Not always, I agree, but Lenco refuses to accept responsibility for his own actions, and then we get this sort of drama if he is challenged.
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That elusive middle ground is hard to negotiate sometimes!
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Originally Posted by
BlueIris
Not always, I agree, but Lenco refuses to accept responsibility for his own actions, and then we get this sort of drama if he is challenged.
I think my post may have triggered Lenco. I can see the emotion start to kick in when my reference to school took him back to his school days, so you can thank Nora Big Gob. I'll take some responsibility here, for sure. I know school's a trigger for him (as it is with me), I just wasn't thinking when I posted...
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I don't think so, Nora. I don't think you should take any of the "blame". We all have triggers regardless of diagnosis.
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Nora, it really isn't you. I know that you empathise with him, but he's a grown man and he has to bear some degree of responsibility.
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Re: Issues that people don't seem to make such a big deal of like they once did
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Originally Posted by
Lencoboy
Here is a list of certain issues, events, etc, that were once heavily the subject of day-to-day conversations and featured extensively in the news, but are seemingly mentioned much less now than before (in no particular rank order) or at least kept lower-key, despite almost all of them still existing in some form or another.
Covid (most recent).
AIDS/HIV.
Binge drinking/late-night aggro in town centres, etc.
Teenage pregnancies.
Feral youngsters.
'Ch@v' culture.
Happy slapping.
Joyriding.
Conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
ISIS and Al-Queda.
The EDL, Britain First, etc.
Violent films and 'video nasties' in general.
'Explicit' content in popular music (not just profanity).
Muggings.
Armed robberies of shops, banks, etc.
To name but a few.
I've just thought of another couple of things that I forgot to add to this list earlier this year.
Food poisoning, especially Salmonella (late 80s-90s).
MRSA (2000s). Highly politicised at the time, especially by those on the Right.
And before I get shot down in flames by certain individuals on here it's hardly 'crime of the century' to talk about these things.
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I’m very interested in discussing what your referring to -maybe not talk with ‘normies’ about any of this stuff - as Im sure your aware it’s all being talked about on YouTube & on peoples own websites who also have an interest in what would probably be considered ‘conspiracy’ :winks::secret:
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PUGLETMUM
I’m very interested in discussing what your referring to -maybe not talk with ‘normies’ about any of this stuff - as Im sure your aware it’s all being talked about on YouTube & on peoples own websites who also have an interest in what would probably be considered ‘conspiracy’ :winks::secret:
My above list isn't necessarily all what one might consider 'conspiracy theories' though as they seemed to be genuine causes for concern by many at the 'height' of their extensive media coverage and everyday conversation, even though they were sometimes exaggerated/sensationalised by the media on occasions, where they sometimes in turn became 'self-fulfilling prophecies'.
But then again, most things generally move on.
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Re: Issues that people don't seem to make such a big deal of like they once did
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Originally Posted by
Lencoboy
I've just thought of another couple of things that I forgot to add to this list earlier this year.
Food poisoning, especially Salmonella (late 80s-90s).
MRSA (2000s). Highly politicised at the time, especially by those on the Right.
And before I get shot down in flames by certain individuals on here it's hardly 'crime of the century' to talk about these things.
I still can't stop wondering as to whether or not MRSA is still a thing, which I'm sure it still is in some form or another.
Not that I'm necessarily scared of catching it myself, but it's just interesting that during much of the 2000s (especially pre-GFC) it was frequently a hot politicised topic but almost never mentioned in the media nowadays.
But the real irony is that so far guring the post-2000s era the NHS and the like have been faced with seemingly relentless cutbacks which could very well lead to bugs and viruses like MRSA and various others proliferating all the more in places like hospitals, etc, especially as cleaning staff are even harder to come by now than back then, both due to lack of such people willing to do such jobs and due to funds in general being tighter now than ever before.
I mean, look at the recent Covid pandemic and all the chaos that unleashed on our already struggling NHS, but for some strange reason (and for better or worse) the MRSA 'superbug' that the media and various Right-wing politicians were constantly putting the fear of God into us over some 20 years ago (and often treated as one of the 'Covids' of the time) barely ever seems to get a look in today.
BTW, MRSA was one of the things that finished off my maternal grandmother in November 2000 after being confined to hospital since around June or July of that same year with seemingly nowhere else to go at the time (e.g, a care home), but I also put it down to multiple elements of bad luck, such as the proverbial 'wrong place(s) at the wrong time(s)', etc.
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I know I already covered this very briefly at the start of this thread but yesterday I was thinking that I don't notice people talking about 'kids today' as much now as back in the 2000s (and sometimes before), whether in face-to-face conversation, online forums, lengthy news articles in response to specific incidents involving them, etc.
Not sure if they're now generally better behaved, worse behaved, or about the same as in most previous decades, but there doesn't seem to be the same intense moral panics about them now like there used to be, which is probably a good thing as it can lead to self-fulfilling prophecies and the like.
I surmise that there were also certain political agendas involved back in the 2000s, especially from the likes of Cameron and his 'Broken Britain' lark post-2005, plus people saying stuff like 'bring back school corporal punishment', 'bring back borstals', 'bring back the death penalty', blah blah blah, all of which sayings thankfully seem far rarer now.
I also reckon that it could be because many of those who were at the forefront of the so-called 'permissive society' are (dare I say it) ageing themselves now, so therefore most 'deviant' behaviours in general from the younger generations (apart from the likes of knife crime, certain dubious online-enabled activities, etc) probably aren't quite so unusual and shocking to them as they were to previous older generations.
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People generally have a very short attention span for big news stories, which I think is part of it. Another part is that some things have actually improved. Teen pregnancy had dropped 77% since the 90s (at least in the US). Growing up in America we were also inundated with anti-smoking ads, but smoking has become far less common as well. HIV/AIDS is so much better controlled now with medications that it's no longer a crisis that needs to be in the news. But, I would say that international affairs - against at least in the US - drop off quickly as Americans are so uninterested in the rest of the world generally. I did just come across something about the Zika virus yesterday and it reminded me of that hoopla a few years back. I looked it up and there was another epidemic of it in Brazil recently, but I haven't heard a word about it.
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ErinKC
People generally have a very short attention span for big news stories, which I think is part of it. Another part is that some things have actually improved. Teen pregnancy had dropped 77% since the 90s (at least in the US). Growing up in America we were also inundated with anti-smoking ads, but smoking has become far less common as well. HIV/AIDS is so much better controlled now with medications that it's no longer a crisis that needs to be in the news. But, I would say that international affairs - against at least in the US - drop off quickly as Americans are so uninterested in the rest of the world generally. I did just come across something about the Zika virus yesterday and it reminded me of that hoopla a few years back. I looked it up and there was another epidemic of it in Brazil recently, but I haven't heard a word about it.
Thanks for your reply Erin.
I think you're correct about people's generally shorter attention spans nowadays concerning many issues which I was basically thinking the other day soon after my last post in this thread. I don't necessarily believe that most people are inherently more selfish or indifferent in general nowadays, even though it can often seem that way; it's largely symptomatic of the plethora of 24/7 rolling news channels, social media and being forever bombarded with an endless flurry of adverts whenever we go online (including this very site).
I've said this before that prior to the advent of 24/7 rolling news channels and the like (especially pre-2000), people actually watched and listened to news bulletins on the TV and radio at set times throughout the day as there was very little choice back then, plus people actually went out and purchased conventional printed newspapers or had them delivered via subscription to their local newsagents, so were basically more invested in many current affairs for much longer, unlike now where many events (especially not-so-good events) that a lot of us simply tut about and highly condemn in the heat of the moment that then seem to be forgotten about and 'water under the bridge' a couple of days later.
I've noticed over the past 20-odd years or so (on both sides of the Atlantic) many of us have seemingly become more cynical about things in general and less trusting of officialdom and 'experts', even the vast majority who aren't reputed to be unscrupulous. Climate change deniers are among my biggest bugbears ATM, including those who do acknowledge it deep down but act all defeatist with stuff like 'well the planet's now already well damaged beyond repair so what's the point in doing anything, plus why should I be denied the right to 'live and let live' at my age' and 'Well what about the Chinese who are evermore indifferent to all things global warming, so what's the point in the rest of the world taking action?' Yeah right, just because one country (e.g, China) doesn't appear to be taking climate change seriously doesn't mean the rest of the world should simply sit on its laurels and come out with the same old feeble excuse 'it's all a waste of time and money, and a violation of personal freedoms' and inadvertently not give a damn about the generations to come and bury their heads in the sand forever more.
As for issues like teen pregnancies and conventional cigarette smoking; they've generally become less prevalent here in the UK too over recent years despite the fact that many doom-mongers still refuse point blank to believe it (the so-called officialdom cynics) and are still adamant otherwise, despite the official stats here revealing the downward trends similar to those Stateside. Ditto for AIDS/HIV.
So far the current Zika epidemic in Brazil that you mentioned still has yet to be plastered all over the UK media, so here's hoping it doesn't escalate into yet another Covid-like global pandemic; but at least the previous 'epidemic' around the mid 2010s didn't quite materialise in such a manner.
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Funnily enough I was having a conversation with a staff member at my day centre the other day and they believe exactly what Erin suggested about people's reduced attention spans nowadays and for example, I brought up the 'kids today...' thing and the general moral panics about ASB and the like and how back in the 2000s in particular what big things they seemed to be in terms of both day-to-day conversation and general media coverage and how many people don't really seem to make the same big deal of said issues now that that they once did.
The general public's reduced attention span thing was one factor cited in said staff member's explanation, plus she also believes (in her opinion) that most youngsters generally seem tamer now compared to most previous decades and don't appear to be as compelled to rebel quite as blatantly as they used to.
I also wonder if many people are simply more blase about ASB in general than they once were, and now consider making big issues of it a pointless waste of time and just shrug it off/brush it under the carpet with the oft-cited belief that 'there's far more important issues to be concerned about right now'? Or is there genuinely less ASB and wild behaviours from youngsters now (apart from the likes of knife crime and dubious online activities obviously) than there used to be? Or a combo of each perhaps?
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I don't know whether or not it's just me but more recently I haven't noticed as many discussions about the epidemic of 'shortages' in this country which has been quite a hot topic since the last months of 2021, particularly after the pandemic-related restrictions petered out over the course of that year. Plus I haven't noticed as many gaps in supermarket shelves either since around earlier this year, though there's a possibility that my two main go-to supermarkets (LIDL and our local Co-op) could have reorganised the layouts of their stocks on the shop floors to make it look like there's less shortages now than last year.
I wonder if the 'shortages' in general have actually become less of an issue now or if most people have simply become more accustomed to them and like I suggested above the shops might have rearranged their stock displays in order not to show the gaps, which may in turn be fooling us that the worst is over?
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I've noticed people seem to be more blase about big-name retailers going bust of late, especially Wilko.
Unlike even as recently as 15 years ago when Woolworth's went bust which I remember being a big thing at the time and in some respects highly politicised (e.g, dubbed as one of many symptoms of Brown's/New Labour's 'Broken Britain' by some at the time, especially those on the Right).
On a related note, I've also noticed most people don't seem to be as publicly vocal and angry in the same way against the current COL crisis as they were against the GFC 15 years ago, though that could very well be due to it being greatly overshadowed by the Covid pandemic and all its attendant implications (including extensive restrictions pertaining to it in 2020-21) so soon before it. Had Covid not have happened it would probably have been a far bigger deal than it seems to have been so far.
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I remember when our local police station in Tamworth town centre closed in 2019 hardly anyone seemed to bat an eyelid (I still used to read our weekly local rag religiously almost every week back then but hardly ever bother with nowadays). In previous decades there would have almost certainly been protest marches by residents of the borough over it, but in 2019 it seemed like it was mostly shrugged off.
Likewise in Burton when the National Brewery Centre closed last year most of the locals just seemed to just take it on the chin and again no signs of any mass protest marches over it which also would have been a dead cert in past decades. I'm sure that must have been the case in the past when some of the breweries themselves (and other 'factories') there closed for good and jobs inadvertently lost.
But now (and for better or worse) it seems that people in general are far more emotionally embroiled in events happening far away in other countries that us Brits in most cases have no immediate control nor influence over, but at the same time seem rather apathetic and blasé about certain issues/events much closer to home that probably would have been a much bigger deal in years gone by.
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It's because we're more connected, I think. Job losses are horrible, but it's not the same as people dying. We're empathetic creatures, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I know that this country is screwed up, but not in the same way as some of our global neighbours.
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Pain
What point are you trying to make in this post, Lencoboy?
I could be wrong here, but you seem to be bemoaning the fact that folks won’t go out of their way to demonstrate or complain about stuff that you think they should.
Do you, personally, get involved in protestations... publicly voice your opinions (other than here in the NMP forum), meet with like-minded folks and organise action groups, contact your local district councillor/county councillor/MP, hire public venues and encourage folks to attend and discuss stuff, write to the prime minister, write to the leader of the opposition parties, put your fears/objections/support to a relevant government minister, request the local/national press to take an interest, get yourself on tv or radio to put across whatever it is you want to put across, join/start a demo march, chain yourself to immovable objects etecetera, etcetera, etcetera...? Yes, all these things require motivation, effort, time, expense, and will almost certainly generate hostility and ridicule.... and may end in total abject failure.... But that’s better than griping about other folks not doing their bit... as you see it!
I think I would personally find participation in protests/demos far too traumatic and triggering, especially with a lot of the angry aggressive shouting that often happens during them, and occasionally even full-on physical violence.
However, I don't always necessarily agree with every single protest/demo that takes place, and I have even felt that some that have taken place over the years have been rather trivial, irrational and unwarranted on occasions while many others have been totally 100% justified.
I'm just generally intrigued as to why many things that seemed to raise eyebrows far more in the past no longer seem to have the quite the same impact on the masses to the extent that they once seemed to.
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It's because we're a global society, and there are much more serious things happening elsewhere.
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BlueIris
It's because we're more connected, I think. Job losses are horrible, but it's not the same as people dying. We're empathetic creatures, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I know that this country is screwed up, but not in the same way as some of our global neighbours.
I understand what you're saying BI, in that compared to dying in needless brutal ways (as in the Middle East, Ukraine, etc, right now), job losses, while as horrible as they often are for those affected, are generally the lesser of the two evils.
However, crime will still always affect us all in some way or another, and the loss of police stations (and officers) over recent years inevitably exacerbates those risks, even though my area is still far removed from 'Bandit Country'.
I wonder how a lot of the locals may have responded had it been, say, our library that closed instead of (or even as well as) our police station, which is obviously in lesser demand these days, especially due to the now-widespread advent of the Internet?
Although of course I di rather sad about the closure of places like libraries (especially with the few who still happen to visit and support such places on a regular basis in mind, and of course the staff losing their jobs), but less so than over the closure of police stations, hospitals, schools, etc, all of which are ultimately far more important to communities at large IMO.
I also agree with you that in spite of our own respective flaws, we in the UK still have it fairly easy compared to certain other countries around the world, especially those currently ravaged by conflicts, corruption and/or profound economic crises.
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But Lenco are those same people that could march for a police station the same ones that would glue themselves to a road for the planet? Some people are very active in their beliefs whereas many are busy with their own lives.
And don't forget some groups have more pull or are more connected. Some have links into political parties, some make a career of it, some take training in it.
It's not just that there are terrible things happening because it doesn't explain why Palestine gets crowds and no one cares about all the kids the Saudis have been bombing. So there has to be another factor involved.