It happens all the time. Any time someone does something, people get upset. It's automatic.
I was just reading my mail and one item said, "Recent decisions removing obstacles to genetically engineered crops have upset supporters of organics." Naturally.
Tax Day is fast approaching and people will be walking around everywhere with tea bags hanging from their hats.
Some people complain that their lattes are too hot and others that they're too cold. If you want a hot latte in NY, you have to specify "extra hot". I guess that means they don't add a little cold water to keep from being sued.
In short, [ACTION] --> [WHINE]
What's this thing that makes people get their panties all in a bunch no matter what happens? Why is everyone primed to be upset at the slightest provocation? Whatever happened to people liking each other?
On the other hand...
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-Oscar Wilde
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
-George Bernard Shaw
On the other hand (how many hands are there?)...
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- Hippocrates
Check out Graham Nash's comment at the top of page two of his interview in yesterday's Chronicle:
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"The idea that we should come together and be more pleasant with each other and treat each other with more respect, that's what that fund in Tucson is going to do."
Thanks to the technology revolution, we have information overload, and are biologically ill-prepared to deal with too many inputs. Thus we are irritable and grouchy. Plus, we have media and "reality TV" encouraging overdramatic reactions to anything. Attention is paid to bad behavior, which begets more bad behavior, ad infinitum.
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