Where's the wrath? Keeping silent of shame, not allowed having just and righteous demands, justified anger stifled - empathy deficits in the power...

[Updated May 22]. In a news item in a local, Swedish newspaper you could read

”Where's the wrath?

We are waiting and waiting and waiting...

But nothing happens. Where's the wrath, the ardour, the passion and the hot engagement in the political opposition?

Where are all the human beings who have been kicked out from the jobs and who once again have an unsure future before them?”

Are they blaming themselves? Brainwashed for such a long time that people are cheaters, misusing systems?

And, quite ironically, who wants to be a cheater? So people are clenching their teeth instead?And keeping silent of shame?

”People are lowering the wages to avoid new notices to quit.

The government's own finance expert gives the government mark below the pass standard.

The Swedish Trade Union Confederation are you taking tranqullizers?

It's time to start mobilizing the last powers we have – or are we all waiting for Godot?”

Yes, why are so many young unemployed feeling so bad? A survey made by the Swedish National Institute of Public Health shows that young people without work feel less well than those who have works. They are less social and experience a lower emotional support and are at risk of psychological ill-health.

One of six young unemployed women have tried committing suicide and one of four young unemployed men have had thoughts of committing suicide.

They have problems with headache, tiredness, anxiousness, and troubles sleeping.

A job is important for factual issues with the economy and worktasks that are developing (for you as a person), but also because you become part of a social context and get the feeling that you are contributing. And most people want to do this. Most people don't feel well not doing this, at least not in long term. Shown in the fact that people who have been unemployed for a long time dies earlier. See earlier posting on that more equal societies almost always do better.

But we have been brain-washed with that people don't want to work but just want to live on grants and subsidies. And - does this say more about those upholding such things than about people in general?

I wonder how deliberate this has been from certain groups in the society?? Playing on peoples' tendencies to feel shame and blame themselves? In the same manner as we were treated as kids many times, and played out against each other!??? The reason why this propaganda has been so efficient??

They, the power groups, have succeeded in making people feel bad and ashamed and guilty!!?? Their purpose!? So people don't have any just and righteous demands?? The righteous anger is stifled and swallowed.

What our politicians in the government show is empathy deficits, see earlier posting in Swedish!! To say it straight!? And too many people in power positions suffer from empathy deficits???

And people haven't been allowed to really call the power in question!!! Paul Krugman actually writes about this today. People have been kept down! And played out against each other (divided and ruled). Probably exactly as we were treated (read manipulated) as small kids early in life (the reason why it's so easy to manipulate people in the same way when they are adults! And thus a justified anger is stifled).

Addition after lunch: See the review "Inequality makes us ill. And depressed. And violent."

Addition May 22: And if shame isn't enough, you use other means? Threats of punishments for instance?

George Monbiot writes in ”The Barbarians at the Gate- Why has policing in Britain gone so mad?”:

”The principal cause of man’s unhappiness is that he has learnt to stay quietly in his own room. If our needs are not met, if justice is not done, it is because we are not prepared to leave our homes and agitate for change.

Blaise Pascal ('the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his own room') couldn’t have been more wrong.

We do not starve, we are not arbitrarily imprisoned, we may vote, travel and read and write what we wish only because of the political activism of previous generations. Almost all MPs, when pushed, will acknowledge this. Were it not for public protest they wouldn’t be MPs.

Yet, though the people of this country remain as mild and as peaceful as they have ever been, our MPs have introduced a wider range of repressive measures than at any time since the Second World War.

A long list of laws – the 1997 Protection from Harassment Act, Terrorism Act 2000, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, the 2005 Serious Crime and Police Act and many others(1) - treat peaceful protesters as if they are stalkers, vandals, thugs and terrorists.

Thousands of harmless, public-spirited people now possess criminal records. This legislation has been enforced by policing which becomes more aggressive and intrusive by the month. The police attacks on the G20 protests (which are about to be challenged by a judicial review launched by Climate Camp) are just the latest expression of this rising state violence.

Why is it happening?”

Look how much power it can be in young people who are given opportunities to develop their talents and strengths: