Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Blame, Gaming, Rage

A reader dropped me a note with a link to the website Global Guerrillas, authored by one John Robb, former USAF special ops pilot and entrepreneur.  Robb’s short description of his site reads as follows.

Networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. Resilient Communities, decentralized platforms, and self-organizing futures.

More specifically, the reader directed my attention to a post at Global Guerrillas titled RAGE AND HEALTH CARE, which Robb prefaced this way.

Here’s some fun thinking about drivers of political fragmentation and the slow failure of America.

Since thinking is fun, I read through the post.  Robb’s hypothesis regarding the current “rage” against ObamaCare (DeathCare) is as follows.

...The trigger, or the change in the game (the economic system) that prompted the confusion and anger we see today was the 2008 financial crisis.  The inchoate anger this crisis caused is now being directed against the US government and the party in power. Here’s a fuller explanation for this.

We have collectively developed the belief that the capitalist system that we work in and our system of governance, although very messy at times and often harsh, is fundamentally fair.  The financial collapse proved that these beliefs were completely unfounded and we (collectively) were fools for believing in such nonsense…

Robb provides additional reasonings to support his claim that “inchoate anger,” resulting from the 2008 financial industry collapse, is the reason for the current “rage” vigorously percolating today in response to the passage of ObamaCare (DeathCare).  Robb also boldly states that the actors working within the financial industry up to its collapse, were “traitors.”

Personally, I think Robbs hypothesis may be a bit too simple and neat.  During the time of willy nilly easy mortgage money, everybody wanted some, and it was easy to get.  Vast numbers of individuals did get a piece of the easy money pie.  It wasn’t just the players in the financial industry.

I think there is a cumulative burden of State interference in individuals’ lives which is finally being noticed by Americans, and one burden too many has now been strapped to Americans’ backs in the form of ObamaCare (DeathCare).  Americans may finally be coming to the realization that these burdens laid on them by the State must be shaken off, but it may be too late for that to be achieved in a manner without rage.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/23 at 06:06 PM
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