Over-intervention will boil the frog.
This is what "they" don't seem to get. Our culture of compliance is based on consumerism. Even the left is starting to notice that we don't have a culture of resistance any more. Mark Ames
of
www.exiledonline.com whose articles often appear at
www.alternet.com is constantly inciting violence and praising school shooters and workplace shooters, and bashing average Americans for not being more violent. Kunstler as well.
It's true. People are not as hard as they used to be, but that's a temporary thing. The old hardness can and will come back
All that needs to happen, and I think is happening, is sufficient economic contraction to make people scramble for resources again, to live in survival mode for a while, to lose their complacency. People who are forced to grow their own food and are underemployed have time to think about things and get lean, mean and pissed off.