Just a quick question to the ether – because by one means or another, day in, day out, I hear or read the appeal: ‘why aren’t the British people more outraged?’ – and I have no clue as to an answer, whatever the subject the appeal is being made for or on behalf of.
But I’m wondering: how useful – on the 13th August, under sunshine and blue sky, around 24 degrees – how useful to our lives would having more ‘outraged’ British people really be? Isn’t there something better we could bring to the public arena than rage?
Absolutely genuine question: isn’t there?
wind in my wheels 🌱 
Why stop with the British people? Why isn’t the American people more outraged? Where are the good people? Will evil triumph because good people do nothing? Apologies to Edmund Burke.
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Thanks so much for this reply: wherever good people (and there are billions of them) do ‘something’ positive in the world there’s a contribution towards the greater good, I’m sure – and some of that good may have been initiated or prompted by a measure of justifiable outrage. I’m generally less convinced by much that purports to be, or we’re told is, ‘outraged,’ or should be, where that semi-permanent state of being appears to contribute more to intolerant and intolerable heat than to substance … ‘people say’ … ‘people don’t like’ … ‘people did’ … Which people? Where? Why?
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I only embrace outrage to the degree that it moves me to action…otherwise, life is too short to be spent in such a state. Many other emotions that are more productive…and pleasant. And for the record, many, many Americans are *furious* with the current state of affairs and abysmal lack of leadership here. Hopefully we can rectify this soon….
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Yes, Lori. Too short. And I truly believe that so much suffering can be avoided, or at least mitigated, by simple changes to thought processes 🙂x
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