On Thu, 7 Feb, Ed Weick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It would seem that much of the anger comes not from the poor and >downtrodden, but from relatively well educated young people from the >middle and upper classes, many of whom have lived and perhaps studied in >the west. The young men who hijacked the 9/11 planes were not exactly >peasants. > I don't find this at all surprising. "Ask not", as John Donne observed. It is just those who have the burden of guilt from their unearned privilege, living above the misery of their compatriots by virtue of their parents' good fortune and sometimes criminal past, who enjoy the silence in which to hear the bell tolling. Martyrdom in class war for their suffering brethren may be more truly to do with this visceral pressure than any verneer of religious zeal. The truly poverty stricken are too busy getting through the day alive to worry about geopolitics, or to think about more elaborate expressions of their discontent than tossing rocks at some local symbol of their perceived oppressors. -PV >> From: Lawrence DeBivort >> To: Futurework@Scribe. Uwaterloo. Ca >> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 8:05 AM >> Subject: RE: Anger in politics >> >> >>I have been reading these posts on anger in politics with great >>interest, and while the focus has been primarily on domestic situations, >>I find a parallel with the international situation. There is a tide of >>popular anger rising around the world, now being exacerbated by US >>actions in Afghanistan and threats against others. Corporate >>exploitation (a la Enron) is not new to peoples in the 'third world' >>and I would imagine that the level of suffering of the average 3rd >>worlder has increased significantly in the post WWII period. Yes, some >>countries have made PCI improvements, but this is not the only measure >>of well-being. Suffering can be psychological and spiritual, as well as >>economic and other things. This is a tide of anger that should not be >>ignored by 'those in power', but probably will be. >> >> Lawry de Bivort
