Angstrom wrote:LOFA wrote:I don't know if it is of any consolation to any of you in London, but I really look foward to seeing how your nation responds to this situation. Perhaps the world will learn something positive from your example.
well, I'm not in London .. where I imagine it is a bit more fraught than here (200 miles away), but the general UK publics reaction is 'what a bunch of bastards, ah well shit happens, best get on with it!'
it's pretty odd, I know we are meant to be stoic and all that, but we out-do ourselves it seems!
the general comment off people in the streeet is "oh, it's terrible that london thing isn't it, poor people. I don't know' and that's it. Back to business.
In fact I have had the sense that - everyone looked within for outrage and tearful 'why us' feelings and just didn't find any, so gave up. Everyone obviously feels sorry for the victims and their families - but that's about it. No real panic or anything, we know there are nutters in the world and theyve been saying they were going to do this for ages .. then they did it. Simple as that.
the News teams were looking for all that inner angst too, in the end it is now all 'british people, coping marvelously' that fills the telly.
our upper-lips are obviously as stiff as ever!
Although you have to take into account we are a nation of sociopaths.
Quite frankly, I think we've all been waiting for it, and aren't really that surprised. We've been there before, seen much worse in the last 10 years, never mind the last 50. We've had the largest 3 cities in the country ripped apart with bombs, and let's not go into the whole WW2 thing.
Fact is, we'll just rebuild anything that get's knocked down, and carry on. OK London is quiet today, but people are on the tube, on the bus, and in the streets. There'll be no huge change in the way the people or the polititions go about things. My only surprise is that it's happened now, and not at the elections a few months ago, ala Spain.
What worries me isn't that people do this kind of stuff, it's the reasons they come up with for doing it. You hear all sorts of stuff, usually with loads of stuff about culture, and religion, and politics or economics, but it's just down to plain revenge really. Man is inherently violent to other men, esp ones who look, sound, or behave differently, or who have something we want, or who have something we don't think they should have. That pretty much encompasses everyone on the planet then.
People won't just let things be. I bet if all the people who have contributed to this thread were actually having this conversation in the same room, there would have
already been a fight. We've had insults, people dragging 1000 year arguments about the crusades into the present, counter arguments, misleading quotes and plain lies. And we're just a bunch of musicians who should be making love, not war!
Humans suck friends, we got to the top by behaving like this, and we aren't going to stop any time soon. Best thing I can do is just let people fight around me and ignore, because the only other option it to join in, which I am not really here for.
