The system is only part of the problem

I took part in the #fab12 thread on Twitter today.  I saw it tagged somewhere and curiosity got the better of me, so I took a look.  I wish I had not bothered in hindsight.

But it did wake me up to a big problem in UK2012 p.l.c., that SOCIETY is just as culpable for society's ills as the coalition and the system.  The people, or a sizeable percentage of them, are seemingly just out for what they can get and don't give a monkeys about the plight of anyone else.  It is very sad that our country has become so lemming-like that they will freely jump off of the cliff because they are told it is the shrewd thing to do, rather than suggest an alternative course of action where every life is a life worth being a part of - and removes the need for the finality of flinging yourself from Beachy Head.  An alternative that doesn't end up with THEM too floating lifeless on the waves with the rest of those they were happy to abandon. 

No system can be adopted without public support, or even innocent public apathy.  It seems like the percentage of the public who are lucky enough to be employed right now, or have a nest egg to fall back on, are quite content to throw the poor out with the bath water to ensure their own well being.  I wonder what their sentiment will be when they are rudely awakened to the realization that they are also being scapegoated by the system they have sold out to?  Will they be shocked into protesting when the realization dawns on them that the Euro has just crashed and that they are to be just as penniless and unemployed as the people that were forsaken by them?

I have no doubt that there were some trolls on the #fab12 thread, that goes without saying.  Shit always attracts flies.  But I left feeling like the problem was more substantial than that.  I left feeling like I needed to put my fingers down my throat and induce vomiting.  I know of many, many tweeters who, in my opinion, are not trolls.  They genuinely believe that people should work for a pittance rather than not work at all.  They believe that a staple diet of turnips is better than starving.  Well, i'm allergic to turnips.  Plus they taste like minty crap.  I want better, I deserve better.  I paid my dues for 25 years, now I want what's coming to me now I am unable to work.  I demand it.  If some financial consultant only earns £90,000pa rather than £98,000pa, then let it be.  It doesn't cost £90k to buy a cwt of turnips, and even plentiful accompanying root vegetables to please the palate, so my conscience is clear with those with loadsamoney paying a little bit more.

Now to convince them of that, before they depart for their yuppie Saturday evening in an Old Broad Street wine bar. ...