hitori1973 said:Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
Yep. Totally my experience.
hitori1973 said:Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
Village_Idiot said:I'm 48 and I feel Britain has become a disgusting place in the last 25 years in particular, the wealth gap has widened and social mobility seems limited. It is everyone for themselves and people are not ashamed of it. The press is a daily barrage of hate for society's unfortunates who apparently are to blame for every last social ill including their own poverty. As society's unfortunates are generally less well connected less quick witted ruthless and less attractive it seems rather churlish to blame them for faults that give the more fortunate an advantage.
I know other countries have their problems but I think Britain is a particularly cruel society nowadays. I'm not blaming anyone or offering explanations just giving my view.
Village_Idiot said:The human mind doesn't work like that though, does it?
People aren't gonna lie down and accept their 'misery' because billions of others have it worse, particularly when it is suspected that the creation of an underclass is deliberate and could have been avoided.
People compare themselves with their immediate fellow beings, that is why even high achievers kill themselves. Good luck with changing that mindset.
But yes a lot of our woes are due to having the luxury of free time to think about them.
delledonne11 said:I think we have lost the concept that there is something larger than ourselves and our own desires. That we don't feel connected to God, humanity, the world, our communities in neighborhoods in the way of times past and shared purposes. We seem to have all just gone solo and now are all entertaining ourselves with our mindless devices. And, those who long for that human connection or shared purpose can no longer find it, which i think is often why some of us are here.
And, the odd thing is that work and work for the material goods of life, but in the end those things don't bring peace and happiness.
Case said:Does any of this make sense? I wouldn't be asking if I did not have British friends who tell me about the typically cynical, grumbling Brit, and that it's not very far off from the truth.
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