Moronic behaviour everywhere it seems...

[funkylyn]

Even in the narrow country lanes near Luppitt in devon....My daughter has just called me to tell me of her incident today.
She drives a big van, as big as my motorhome, as she is a mobile dog groomer.
Heading down a lane so narrow that both van sides were touching the hedgerows she met a car driven by 2 men who refused to reverse, Sara couldnt as she couldnt see .....her mirrors were in the hedges....they then backed up and drove at full speed towards her braking at the last minute swearing and making signs to her and just stopped in front of her, she locked her doors, switched off her engine and picked up a book to read, after 3 or 4 minutes they gave up and backed up into a nearby gateway.
What on earth is getting in to people.....are they putting something in the water ?

Lynda

 

[flecc]

It's frustration Lynda.

In every age a proportion of the population don't cope well with life and it's demands, and the more progress there is and the more complicated modern life becomes, the larger the numbers who don't cope well and in various ways lash out in impotent frustration and rage.

Several hundred years ago when the church effectively ruled, the people universally found life very simple since the odd unexplained things were due to their god. Everyone could cope and be sure that any explanation and understanding they needed would unfailingly come from the priest. All anyone had to do was be obedient to ensure a place in a heaven they believed existed.

With each age since then the complications have grown, religious authority has weakened and the dissatisfaction and unrest have grown with those changes, from Wat Tyler all the way to the events of the last week. Over time it will of course get worse.

I am in no way religious, just observing the part religion has played.
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[funkylyn]

Yes, I think you are absolutely right Flecc........ we become more sophisticated in a way and that could well lead to the ultimate demise of the human race.
Maybe when the machines take over they might do a better job than us
Maybe the Matrix is right and we are all not really here but having these conversations and living life in our minds whilst lying in our little cocoons in outer space !!
I have always said that it must be wonderful to have an overwhelming belief in a god and a life ever after, a more simplistic view on life.
However I am not that naive like most (some?) people these days.
I think back to my desolation and grief when my dad died, it would have been much easier to have believed, as my husband does, that we would meet again in a better place.......oh that life was that simple.
Its the knowledge that it can ONLY get worse that is so depressing sometimes.......not that I am at all a depressive person, I just think a lot and have sort of learned to cope with the results
Like most of us I suppose.....
A good sense of humour is a necessity of life......

Sometimes I think life on a desert island could be appealing......as my kids shriek with laughter at the thought of their mother living life without all my favourite technie toys !

Lynda

 

[flecc]

Sometimes I think life on a desert island could be appealing......as my kids shriek with laughter at the thought of their mother living life without all my favourite technie toys !

Lynda

Yes, we all like to kid ourselves in that way, but the reality would shock us back to our senses!

 

[eTim]

Also in the past, your life had real, life or death purpose, your purpose was to work, toil in the fields to provide food for the family, if you didn't toil you didn't survive (Darwinism?), you lived a relatively short amount of time before dying, 40 was considered old age and I guess it probably felt like it, mortality was very high as even simple malaise would wipe you out.

Whilst the purpose of providing for your family still remains, sophistication and state support has removed the motivation to work for it, if you don't work, you still get to live and live to a ripe old age and be supported. And if you don't work, then the old adage of "The Devil finds work for idle hands" appears to be alive and kicking (literally!).

Sorry to hear of your daughter's experience Lynda, every week I seem to hear a similar story from a work colleague or online, to the point now, where it's almost taken for granted and the shock element has disappeared.

 

[funkylyn]

Thanks eTim.
Maybe human beings evolved only supposed to live 40 years of toil and trouble and now we have upset the balance !! I think you have certainly been proven right about the devil finding work for idle hands.
The thing is that we must all try NOT to take it for granted otherwise 'they' will certainly win out in the end.

Lynda