Changing the world.... one broken window at a time.....

  I'm curious.  When did we become such an angry society at large?  A few years ago, fans of the Vancouver Canucks hockey team expressed their dismay with their team squandering a chance to win the Stanley Cup by trying to tear down their home city piece by piece and block by block.  In LA, after the Rodney King verdict, angry protesters decided to answer an obvious injustice by committing acts of physical violence against anyone who crossed their paths.  They also looted any particular business within their line of sight.  Now comes word that a group of protesters took it upon themselves to try and disrupt traffic during a march over the George Zimmerman acquittal.  And while one group was trying to disrupt traffic, the other half of the mob went on a looting spree,  Does anyone in this society actually THINK before they act anymore?  Did any of these people ever stop to think that looting businesses and disrupting traffic won't change anything that's happened.  I can't put my finger on it.  Is it out and out selfishness or self centered ness or is it simply a need to be seen with this current generation?  I think the greatest example of mis guided thinking was the occupy wall street movement.  Did those people actually think they were being heard by the fat cats they were rallying against?  There was marching and protesting and slogans and human barricades and in the end, nothing changed.  The poor are still poor, the rich are still rich, and the banks continue to get baled out.  We had people shouting in effigy to protest the war in Iraq and there were Dubya masks and pretty signs with words damming the former president on all levels.  In the end, what happened?  Dubya got re-elected, the war continued, American blood continued to be shed, and the band of war played on.  You know what elicited the most change?  A bunch of people calmly going to the voting box in 2008 and letting their voices be heard.  We didn't have to break windows or loot to let everyone know that we were an unhappy electorate.  We found the man we wanted in Barack Obama and we voted him into office.  Here's what I'm saying here.  Put down your signs people.  Stop acting so damn infantile and stop lashing out at straw people in the hope of vetting your anger at things you can't change.  You want to change the world?  Great.  Then start by embracing that often under appreciated aspect of our very liberties known as voting.  Voting is a hell of lot better than causing mass chaos or howling at the moon in vain.