Slightly off-topic, but the mention of Malheur reminded me of a conversation in the men's changing room yesterday at Quail Run.
The Big Short started the discussion, and one guy said ".. but you can't trust anybody anymore, and the government is worst of all! Why aren't most of the bankers who caused the Financial Crisis in jail?". This prompted another guy to say: "the only honest guys running for president are Trump and Sanders". Trump? Then "Hillary is in the banks pockets just like the rest." Well, true .. and why *aren't* the bankers in big trouble rather than continuing to be too big to fail and building even more risky financial stunts? As far as I know, only one banker is in jail and it is in Europe, not the US. And these weren't idiots, just folks angry at just how bad things are .. just like the Rancher's Rights at Malheur. Amok may be just what voters are about to be. It isn't populism, exactly .. its just plain mad and may have surprising "uprisings" as a result. -- Owen On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Nick Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Aw, Glen. You are probably right, as usual. Another great and > beautiful theory crushed by ugly little facts. And as a behaviorist, what > am I doing trotting out a "propensity" theory, anyway? > > Still, there was something about reading those cultural descriptions of > "amuck" that seemed to set these things in a new context. > > N >
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