You see this behavior quite frequently on the roadways. People are very rude and inconsiderate to their fellow travelers. Don’t let them be late going where they’re headed; you become just another casualty to them like a bug splashing on their windshield.
The way people interact with each other in general has gotten to be very inconsiderate. They appear to have very little compassion for each other.
Don’t happen to have an opinion about politics because if you fall on the wrong side of the political equation you are dog meat. Republicans hate Democrats and vice verso. The right hates the left. The moderates hate the liberals. They don’t just modestly disagree with them, but express really deed-seated hatred.
When George W. Bush was in office you had the Bush-Haters. Now that Obama is in office we have the Obama-haters. This hatred is not just about their character, at least not in all cases, but more about them representing “the enemy.”
As if that wasn’t unusual enough just take a look at the institutions that are suppose to teach us how to love one another, the religious community. Christians hate Muslims, Catholics hate Protestants, so many believers hate the Jews, some Buddhist think people who believe in a divine entity are off-base, and if you practice something other than the beholder, you become a heathen. So much about God and love!
Somehow it appears that we are drifting away from any reasonable sense of basic morality. No one wants to be told what or how to think. Even more importantly they demonize you if you think differently from them.
There is no respect for others who are different. There is no tolerance for disagreement. People feel entitled to be jerks (a-holes), even though they refuse to admit to being one. This sense of entitlement only covers the self and whatever cronies are sucked into their mindset, but everyone else is the enemy.
You would think that people who generate such mean-spirited demeanor would look into a mirror and actually see fumes and flames shooting out of their nostrils with horns extruding out of their skulls like a wild ferocious bull.
The truth is they cannot see themselves, even if they could see they still would feel justified in being what they are. A small percentage of them see exactly what they have become and don’t care what others may think about them.
Where is this dark spirit coming from?
Part of it is conditioning, indoctrination, poor or inadequate parenting, lack of moral boundaries, selfishness, false-pride, and just basically lack of respect for others.
When one has basic respect they could genuinely disagree with others and walk away in disagreement. You realize that people are free to have their opinions and/or beliefs even if they differ from yours. You also realize that your particular parameters from which you assess judgment are different from others.
When respect is not genuinely offered is it really deserved? In other words, if it does not come from you, perhaps it is not in you. So, neither do it belong to you… respect that is.
Another issue is entitlement. If different parties feel equally justified for their stands, in their mind’s eye, they feel entitled. However, if they don’t respect others, to them they are the only ones entitled so therefore others become intruders or otherwise “the enemy.”
There is no real justification for being mean-spirited. It pulls from the bottom of the list of human behaviors. It is like scrapping from the bottom of the barrel where only leftover settlements are gathered.
Such people either don’t know or don’t care about who they harm. Like a bug smashed on a windshield there is no feeling, no compassion, or no thought about others.
There is absolutely no justification for such human behavior. Of course, there are some that would totally disagree with this assessment. We have to learn to live with that fact!
