Today I came across a Wall Street Journal article entitled Why No Outrage? This article is a commentary about the current economic crises we face and we as a nation seem to be nonresponsive. According to James Grant, “Through history, outrageous financial behavior has been met with outrage. But today Wall Street's damaging recklessness has been met with near-silence, from a too-tolerant populace…” It is one of those articles that really make you think and ponder, well at least for me. I ponder at why most Americans are silent; sure we have some brave souls that want to expose the corruption behind the government—but what is wrong with the rest of us?
Grant asks, “Where is the people's wrath?” I, too ask the same question. He also states in the article, “The American people are famously slow to anger, but they are outdoing themselves in long suffering today.” Wow, that is a pretty strong and might I say a rather sarcastic statement. If I were one of those apathetic Americans, then I might get a little angry—well, I take that back if I was apathetic, I probably would not even care. For the people that know me pretty well—the way I’m writing right now is very unlike me. Maybe, I need to not be “so nice” in my writing sometimes. If I do offend you with my writing, then I will take it as a compliment because I will at least know that some of you are human and are capable of emotion--like anger.
You know one of the things that make me angry is that this whole dollar crisis is worldwide. The poorest people in some countries are suffering because the price of food is too high for some families and they are lucky if they even have one meal that day. I also read an article on MSN on how African families are struggling to get food to provide for their families. The women will forgo eating so that their children and husbands eat first. If I were in that predicament, as a mother and wife, I would probably do the same thing. Some women have to subject themselves to prostitution to get food for their family.
Maybe, we don’t care because most of us are not to the point of starving and suffering. Do we have to get to that point in order to wake up? For now, we’ll just sit there and stare at the flat screen and get “fat” off of our American entertainment.
