I think you may be on to something Roy M: I think it is repression actually. People have been staring at the elephant in the room for years and have been punished and degraded for even hinting that they notice it. Now they have found a place where they can talk about it and it is thus something that comes up frequently.
Mickey, you are wrong. That is the scary thing about crime and social decay. You can’t cure it. It has to be something that all of the little people want as they go about their daily lives. How they want to live, what effort they are willing to put forward to make it happen, how they want to deal with problems, stress, and other people.
Throwing money at the problem doesn’t help. We’ve tried that for years. Confronting people with their errors goes a long way, or at least a longer way, but then you run a foul of people who spout culutral superiority, and blaming the victim. Also, their are certain segments of society that you can’t criticize due to PCness. Usually, they are the ones who need to face their problems the most, and while you here them talking about a dialogue they are usually talking about a dialogue that infers that all of their problems are someone else’s.
