People are Getting Crazier in California
I don't know about other parts of the nation. But, we were just talking about this in the office today. My life is spent commuting, working, and spending time with my family. I'm seeing things on my commute the past month or so that are really mindblowing. I think it must be a reflection of something affecting people. Just this morning there was a five car pileup in front of my office. 35 mph speed limit, no stop sights, no speed bumps, straight shot, two lanes...no reason for cars to run into each other. Yet, there it was. Almost no traffic at the time, very early in the morning. I've had a drunk stagger in front of my truck at 6:30 am, almost getting killed. I've seen multiple people passed out on drugs or booze with their legs out in the street and their upper bodies sprawled on the sidewalks. Lots of tents and boxes people sleep in almost anywhere they can place one - freeway cloverleafs, alleys, parks, creeks. I have seen multiple massive crashes lately - probably 5 in the past week - where somebody runs a red light doing at least 50 and just turns their car into a yard sale - often with bad injuries. I'm guessing people are either passing out or just playing with their phones. I'm seeing accidents like this almost every single day, sometimes a couple per day.
There's got to be something going on, right? My coworkers notice it too. Just this past week we've got stories of close calls on our commutes. Any theories on what it could be? I can't imagine. Perhaps it's just coincidence.
There's got to be something going on, right? My coworkers notice it too. Just this past week we've got stories of close calls on our commutes. Any theories on what it could be? I can't imagine. Perhaps it's just coincidence.
When I worked for a small time newspaper during the 70s, I was at times embarrassed by discovered careless gaffes a whole mess of people got to read.
My editor did not edit, you see. In fact, when someone complained about a controversial subject he MY BOSS ordered me to cover, he would lie about having no control over what I wrote. Learned that due to gossip getting around. .
Me dino has a degree in journalism but even I can screw up. So fret not.
Almost all the time I clearly understand you.
Doubt a homeless person is worth a bullet to a gangster and especially not any shovel work.
Driving, I was entering an overpass above I-20/59 out in the boonies halfway between Birmingham and Tuscaloosa.
Coming the other way on the overpass walked a homeless man who wore a backpack. No otherr traffic or pedestrians were around.
The homeless man was yelling at me with eyes all ablaze.
Me dino supposed the man was angry about motorists ignoring him.
So I ignored him.
Now it is destroyed. It only takes one generation.
When the house of cards falls for the Pelosi ,Shifty, Swallwells , Waters ,Brown , Holders,
Feinkenstien comes down you may have a chance.
In California we saw a lot of who my brother called, "Yesterday's hippies" were out stranded by the highways trying to thumb and flag us down for a ride.
Saved a bunch of money in the serve, So me dino was carrying a lot of cash and travelers checks and didn't want anything to do with any strangers.
Me dino was not thinking of yesterday's hiippies as homeless. Maybe I should have. Naw, due to them all being young methinks most had a home to go back to..
Tragic, but IMO as an objectivist and lifelong Economist, this is real, and not coincidence.
It signifies the early symptoms of a breakdown in civil social order, starting with the moral and mental breakdown or at minimum distraction of individuals of all “classes”.
That it is happening in Far Left California is not surprising. The stresses of the misallocations of valuable resources (which unlike the myth and propaganda du jour, is caused by the essentially Socialist governments there, NOT Capitalism) leads to failures and inequalities through all of society. But in the end, those affected are individuals, and these behaviours a result of stresses too overwhelming to handle.
On another note, it seems that people everywhere I go recently (last 2 months especially) are significantly more irritable and on edge. I wonder if there isn't some collective unconsciousness about 1) political unrest stirred by the 7/24 news cycle and 2) the recognition that despite politicians giving us 'the economy has never been better' talk, we are walking the edge of an economic precipice. If so, I wouldn't expect to see more civil behavior in the near future.
I-25 and I-70 are both almost completely undriveable now . . .
- verified by a CO native still living here.
my wife, a mini person got smacked in the face with the bag giving her two black eyes that cosmetics could not make disappear. He was driving a scooter in order to get around. When we went to court, I had my handy dandy NRA pocket knife on me and I was very tempted to aerate his tires. My BW who has been with me for 64 years saw what I guess was a certain expression on my face and immediately knew what I was thinking jabbed me rather forcefully in the ribs with her elbow. I got the message and left the tires of the scooter alone.
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