
A nomination for the immediate recourse to shouting in modern society, or the decline of British decorum and the stiff upper lip.
There seems to be a general failure in British society when it comes to being patient, polite and now no shame in being quick to raise voices, bellow, screech, shout and ejaculate (archaic sense).
People now seem to enjoy creating a scene and embarrassing themselves.
This sense of entitlement and general collapse in manners is not limited to the Gen Z/Alpha Mizzies of the world, but also old women who start shrieking at delivery drivers workmen and dustmen because they’re blocked in and suddenly need to leave for a hospital appointment, the younger Gen-X ‘Karens’ who cannot wait a couple of extra minutes while the fast food worker has to sort through her picky order because her brats are all allergic to anything containing electrons and protons, and even the police who can be seen losing their marbles with the public on a weekly basis, spraying them, shouting at them, grunting and huffing under their breath as they polish off the last morsel of doner meat on the way to the traffic incident.
Social media probably pays some part, as does our increasingly effusive, emotionally incontinent broadcast media – grannies aren’t on Twitter, so they are being encouraged to be cantankerous by some influence.
I routinely see old women speaking and acting like younger men spoiling for a fight; calling people morons because the old dear couldn’t park straight and now has to bend the wing mirror of the other car to open her door.
I hear the impatient honks in the supermarket car parks and roads leading to schools, the relentless blaring on roundabouts.
I guess this is what happens in a society where people are handed prizes just for taking part and encouraged to believe they are the main character in a film of their life and community, as many in America seem to behave, especially those bizarre creatures who broadcast videos of themselves over Tik-Tok.
Society is going to go one of two ways; either further into atomised delusions of self -importance supported by a consumer society teetering on recession, with most work done by robots, and eventual mass psychological breakdown, or a very abrupt culture shock, either by war or economical collapse, and a mass psychological breakdown.
Nominated by : Cuntamus Prime



