Darrell, I'm going to try to reprint something I read that seems to apply to this:
" In my opinion, that's a phenomonen similar to this feeling of impotence and isolation that you mentioned. If you really feel, look, it's too hard to deal with real problems, there are lots of ways to avoid doing so. One of them is to go off on a wild goose chase that doesn't matter."
Another thing , and this is for Janice or whoever was wondering about the paranoia of such a seemingly affluent people, several posts back.;
" There's a feeling in this country that people are under attack. I think they're misidentifying the source of the attack, but they feel under attack. Decades of intensive business propoganda have been designed to make them see the government as the enemy, the government being the only power structure in the system that is eventually partially accountable to the population, so naturally you want to make that be the enemy - not the corporate system, which is totally unaccountable. After decades of propaganda, people feel that the government is some kind of enemy and they have to defend themselves from it. Many of those who advocate keeping guns have that in the back of their minds. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't heard it so many times. That's a crazy response to a real problem."
These are not my words, but certainly make a lot of sense to me.
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