RE: A War Against Glass
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add to that the whole quarantine thing worldwide! it adds a little to bit to the whole "eruption"
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add to that the whole quarantine thing worldwide! it adds a little to bit to the whole "eruption"
That's possible. Heard that one a few times now. Some people say they feel like prisoners, so I thought of prison. Actual prisoners riot from time to time but I'm not sure if it's the living conditions, the state of mind they took in there with them, or both. Not everyone is rioting or looting or angry though the situation bothered them, yet everyone was quarantined.
i think it has multiple factors behind it. To analyse it a bit and sorry if this is gonna be a long reply :P we know as you said that everyone was quarantined. What we don't know and it's hard to know is what's the background of everyone is and under what circumstances did they spent the quarantine. I will get to it in a couple of seconds while note that many psychologists said they fear what the quarantine results may be and in many countries they had open telephone or skype/zoom whatever lines for people to just talk to psychologists
Now regarding the background that i mentioned. During the quarantine a bunch of people lost their jobs, others worked extra hard (courier,supermarkets,warehouses) while in some cases they couldn't go to a bar or cafe. A lot of them were facing family issues while others realized that their partner choices were not the ones because they did it based on factors like money,status,what others gonna say etc etc. Now all these people were "forced" to stay at home with these huge ass problems and imagine what this did to their patience minds etc etc. That's why we had a rise in domestic violence and divorces etc etc
Most of these people are now in a bad psychological situation, maybe furious or whatever and they just need a spark. That spark was that particular event. It's not necessarily means that they wanted to loot things, but to get out on streets and get that anger out with voices,marching,some police fighting and some of them even looting. At the same time i believe the majority of looters were simply stupid people that just found an excuse to do that!
Ofc there are exceptions to the rule Some people were good in quarantine, not much changed, others came closer with loved ones and their family, some had the time to find themselves and some didn't even noticed any difference for example gamers :P
I think that all of us bothered by this death except if you are a complete retard but a lot of us have the brain to understand that by randomly destroying and looting random properties and hitting random people will only result in more hate etc etc. Lastly, writing all these and adding the "little bit" i mentioned in my first comment it is somehow clear how the quarantine may affected some people more than others into these behaviors!
so sorry for the long comment it could be a post :P
Long comments are fine.
In an odd way I guess it's a good sign only a small fraction of society snapped. Some learned good life lessons from this year so far. Like how a comfort zone is uncomfortable, and how much they actually depend on others to fulfill their needs. While a few snapped, maybe more will come out better. I think if it truly was hard on society as a whole, there would have been millions acting in antisocial ways on the streets. There are also those people who would have rioted and looted under quarantine or not. I assume there will be more rioters and looters though since some heard they could.
It's unfortunate for the protesters. Some parts of society can't see the difference between the message and the violence.
i will sound again a little bit of pessimist... A lot of people snapped but didn't mean they become more antisocial or they will start too loot. Snapping sadly can take many forms...For example a "lighter" form of it is a thing most of people around my age did after the quarantine was over. "lets go out each day and get drunk". It is quite stupid given the fact that before the quarantine pretty much the same was happening :P but after 1 month if it suddenly this became their need instead of let's say go out and socializing in cafe or start exercising etc etc. The result for example was yesterday to formally read an announcement that the people driving drunk was up 60% in my country.
couldn't be more accurate!
Nothing wrong with pessimism. I find a realistic approach to life includes embracing both pessimism and optimism. That man approaching me might have a knife; but I hope he doesn't. He looks mean; but he might be a nice guy. People take the world for granted while living in their happy bubbles. All it takes is one tiny glitch in the matrix to make that comfort zone very uncomfortable. But if you prepare your mind for the worst, even expecting the worst, when the negative shit goes down, you're ready. Then the problem is not so profound. Prepare yourself for the worst; if something good happens, the feeling of reward is multiplied since reward was not expected. If all one does is hope for the best and then gets the best, there is no feeling of reward. An always positive mentality leads to most things being taken for granted. A life without surprises.
People feel down. Feeling down is something many neglected to do or accept as natural. Alcohol can replace the illusion of constant comfort and joy, but much like a life filled with only comfort and joy, the comfort and joy becomes so commonplace there is no longer feelings of comfort and joy. People chase those feelings, drinking more and more, but never achieving that first time surprise feeling all over again, so it becomes a problem. A dependency to feel good, but never feeling good.
I think that made sense. Maybe it did. Maybe it didn't. I thank you for bringing out that chain of thoughts though.