Justifiable Anger

AMERICA IS ANGRY. No brag, just fact. The united states of america is an angry place, american culture an angry culture. This may be construed as fair warning to all others nations, particulary nations such as russia, and, say, china; the greatest potential external brunt bearers of american wrath, along with mexico and any tiny country which rejects american rule. 

Afghanistan and Irag already know all bout it, and to a certain extent so does iran, which might be fixin' to learn a whole lot more. The north koreans will back off just in time. They always do. Whether american anger initiates at the top and trickles down, or at the bottom, and filters up, is a fascinating epistomological causal connection question.

Let's split the difference, and say it works both ways. The question is, what causes it?

Doubtless many people will point out that there is a great deal going on in america besides anger, and that anger is not the prime characreristic of american culture. The first assertion is unassailable common sense, the second much more dubious.

Economic collapse might be a prime suspect, particularly when viewed both from above and below.

With american corporations desperate to squeeze as much more profit as possible out of a dying economy, corporate control of the political system tightens, and becomes more aggressive, more hostile to any perceived mitigating influence, such as workers well being and the environment.

The unwashed blue collar masses, always exploited, always ingnored, become restless as they sink ever lower into poverty. Even if people don't knowit or understand it, they sense, quite properly, that they have been sold down the river.

You can see the anger in the way people drive, behave in public, and deal with strangers. And of course you can see it in the violent crime, the broken families, and if you look around in homeless shelters and public parks, you'll see it there as well.

AS long as the anger is justified, it will remain.

Bb

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