[Entropy]

I'm stealing this from the other place, but it fits in with some of what Polar_Bear said.

Originally Posted by Guru_4_Hire

Fundamentally people are convinced that other people exist for their benefit, and as long as we had endless growth and prosperity the fundamental weaknesses could be papered over. Now we have a period of austerity and the half truths of the old social order are exposed to be the half truths they are. Other people arent theirs to do their bidding, and arent doing their bidding anymore.

People are mad because they have this very expensive peice of paper called a degree and are looking around for that good job that they were promised and it isnt there. The people making the promises were never the people that had to carry out those promises. So when we examine point one, we understand why people are standing around mad that somebody isnt doing what they are supposed to do because they have a claim inherant to their existence to a portion of someone elses stuff regardless of their actual willingness in the matter. People are demanding that "the system" aka "other people" do what they want them to do because a bunch of low level government flunkies lied to them their whole life. Now their sheepskin is worth less than the paper it was printed on, and "the system" isnt what was sold to them.

You have a conception of the social contract that says that other people are owed inherant to their existence a high paying job with good benefits because you tithed the democratic party 100 grand at their temples around the nation. Well, they payed the tithe and now society isnt providing their part of the bargain, even though the people whom they entered into the bargain with had no ability to compell society at large to provide what was being promised.

Thats why people are pissed, because they got sold a bargain by people with no ability to provide what was being bargained, and now the crushing reality of the fraud in the supposed social contract is exposed. They feel the system owes them, and the system was never what they were told the system was.

If people want to be mad be mad at the people who took your money and sold you stars and caviar dreams, and now your standing on an empty street and that AV tech job that pays low 30s just isnt good enough, because you paid your tithe and bought your ticket and you want your stars and caviar dreams.

There is a romanticized notion of a social contract that doesnt actually exist.