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Sunday, June 15, 2008
“People hate people”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Commenter “Moccasin City” made a profound point in the discussion below, so I thought I’d give it top billing here to see what it provokes.
“People won’t ride the train to Lovejoy because people can’t hang out with each other any more. We simply can’t. Something has happened in the zeitgeist that makes public exposure too stressful. People hate crowds. People hate people. We’re an internet cafe society now, and all our contact with humanity occurs in bibagytes and pegamixels. (that’s pig latin for cyber chip speed and memory measuring thingies).”
Hard to argue with that. We do seem to fear each other more than ever; we do seem to have less patience with each other than ever. There’s even a website out there, www.whyihatepeople.com, that encourages you to vent about all those other … PEOPLE!
