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Those who are suffering seem strangely passive. Where is the Outrage? Conditions continue to become objectively worse for the great majority of Americans. But these ongoing changes – in actual wages, in employment, in social mobility and wealth equity – have received very little media attention or meaningful political debate. It’s not that things aren’t changing. It’s that people don’t know they’re changing. And without that knowledge the public becomes a canary in a coalmine, only aware of its declining oxygen supply when it keels over and dies. It’s an almost classic state of alienation, in which people may be acutely aware of their own increasing difficulties (although sometimes they can be numb to that as well) but experience them in a state of isolation. That turns the anger inward, leading to crippling reactions like guilt and despair. And repeated individual failures – failures made increasingly likely in a skewed system – lead to a sense of learned helplessness. truth-out.org/opinion/item/17460-where-the-hell-is-the-outrage Share this if you think it’s time to focus on progress, not politics: goo.gl/Z27pv

Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 03:09:26 +0000

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