I think the high cost of living and the lack of time for yourself are the biggest causes of stress in society. People find they can't afford to meet their basic needs and they look for someone to blame. They also have higher expectations than previous generations so have more to complain about when those expectations are inevitably disappointed due to lack of resources or time.
The great unrest of
Great Britain... not enough for our own so why add to the burden by bringing others in?
We have come too far too soon. If Britain returned to just tv and got rid of everything else.... whatever would the companies do when no one buying and selling any longer?
As a Christian everything on the planet belongs to God and everyone had the right to eat and live.
Do we really need all the media hype?
In terms of individualism - I suppose that people want the right to be individuals, and part of that is the right to have different goals and experience pleasure in different ways - what makes one person happy could be a form of torture for someone else.
Part of the issue is that some people do not want their family and community exposed to alternative cultural information and influences that they feel are bad. So in trying to control this exposure, they end up coming into conflict with people who hold a different view. The alternative is to let people have exposure to all kinds of influences and let them make up their own minds - but because many people feel so much personal emotional investment in their families and friends and communities, it is difficult to become detached about your members of your family holding values or exhibiting behaviour you find wrong, or being detached about other people doing something that you think will have a negative impact on your family. Especially as people have a higher expectation than previous generations that they should be accepted and included - so being detached and cutting yourself off from families and communities if you disagree with their values is often frowned upon. If you are discouraged from excluding people then your other option is to try to persuade them to your way of thinking - the difference in opinion can lead to conflict if people take it personally.
When in Rome!!!! But the Governments believe by forcing people together - wars will stop.
By mixing us all up like at the tower of babel we shall all become on multi nation with one money, no religion and no choices but to exist as we do without a real life being told what to do.
There power will become our prison.
I think another part of the issue could be that people are rewarded in different ways for the add-value they bring to the table - and there are diverse ways that people can add-value but only so long as someone exists who finds value in what an individual has to offer. Life is a bit like ebay - someone somewhere wants to take a chance and buy what you are selling but you might not always get the price you want or you and the right buyer might miss each other because of all the other buyers and sellers in the market.
What about when the right to buy and sell becomes about buying only that which you need to live?
When you cannot buy and sell without a mark?
Being told that what you have to offer is not valued enough to reward you as much as someone else will be rewarded causes resentment and could sometimes lead to anti-social behaviour.
When you are told what to think, feel and believe?
What you propose and suggest above has no real relevance because people now and the time of Noah will always do their own thing. They don't care or won't care enough about anti-social behaviour because there will be police states.
For example, as a parent I love my kids equally but my impression is that one of my kids adds more value to my household than the other - I am not talking about economic value, I mean effectiveness in completing useful tasks for the house, willingness to work hard, push your limits, organisation skills, self-discipline, pragmatic, good negotiation skills, less input from me to follow up on tasks being completed. The other kid is wittier, funnier, more creative and kinder but also lazier, messier, disorganised and guided more by their emotions.
I thought kids were to be valued for who they are not what they can bring or acheive.
My children are not about moods, creativeness or tasks performed. They are my children, they never asked to be born and my responsibility. The best I can do is raise them to be self-respecting loving and hopeful people who treat others as they want to be treated and are not cruel but kind.
I value their individual personalities but I love them equally and dearly.
I get more add-value from the industrious, organised one because I am a results-orientated person. Someone else will feel they get more add-value from the kinder, gentler, more creative one. I often reward according to perceived add-value to me - not consciously - but if tasks are completed I agree to requests made of me and don't have time to do a detailed analysis of the "justice"or implications of it all, which means the creative child sometimes feels resentful.
Only in your home and only by your own standards and ways.
My thoughts for my children who are now adults has always been about making them successful and active adults within their own lives and the community. It is to value themselves and others merely as humans the starting point.
It is to word hard to achieve what they want and not be put off.
Maybe that is reflected in wider society - people feel resentful because they feel they are not valued enough but either don't have the opportunity or motivation to acquire the skills that would make them be perceived as more valuable, or don't know how to find the people who concur with them on what they think they are worth.
Value of themselves should never be placed on what society or others think of them.
Skills do not make a person valuable or perceived as giving worth or value to individuals.
How a person lives in society and treats their fellow man will decide how successful they are or will become.
People skills are the most important skills a person can gain and are most useful when dealing with human beings from all walks of life. Self belief is very important a belief which is about confidence and honesty.
