Harking back to my 'rant' of a few postings ago, I noticed a posting that adds weight to my 'case'. Check out Police Inspector Blog dated 06/08/08, and click through to the link to the BBC News story.
This relates to a public spirited woman who asked a couple of people not to smoke on a Station platform.
For her troubles, she was pushed onto the track- and helped up by other decent folk on the platform.
She was lucky not to have been killed.
These days 'What IS the world coming to?' is a question I don't think I want to hear the answer to...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7544748.stm
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The worst of it is, as the fear amongst 'good' people rises after incidents like this, the chances of anyone wanting to intervene decreases so allowing the climate to worsen. It does not look good does it?
It's quite alarming how little regard there seems to be for human life, going by recent news (which is one reason I don't follow current affairs too religiously- it's so damned depressing). A couple of years back people were being stoic, heroic and to some degree unified by the outrages in London- surely life is no less precious now?
No less precious, but there is this sense of being ground down; the constant low-level static of fear making everyone just a little less brave, a little less stoic.
If you could measure this low-level static of fear by some kind of geiger-counter arrangement, it would probably crackle itself into a frenzy when brought near me- but having worked on the Underground for more than ten years I've probably become too numb to realise how just frightened I actually am.
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