Angry Britain

[agchristie]

Have we more in common or more divided?

//Since that fateful day, she has also been at the forefront of the ‘More In Common’ movement — founded after Jo’s indelible quote: ‘We have more in common than that which divides us’ — to promote compassion and kindness within communities.//

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7134319/Jo-Coxs-sister-Kim-Leadbeater-sets-discover-turned-modern-life-toxic.html

[Old_Geezer]

There are many issues apon which we can be divided, but we have what makes us human in common.

As for society getting more antagonistic, it's possible upbringing and present environment may have reduced society's average level of good manners, regard for others, and desire to disagee gently, but a) I suspect it'll prove to be a random blip longer term, and b) there are plenty in the PC group trying the other extreme.

It's all rather complex and difficult to analyse properly, and come to conclusions one can be confident about.

[agchristie]

There is no doubt that in the political world itself there is major division among the main parties with Brexit being the main driver.

In my general daily business I have noticed more intolerance, arguments, lack of social etiquette, morals and a general willingness to co-operate.

There is a lot of disillusionment but as OG mentions, it is complex.

[KARL]

Comparing with my impressions of some other countries, the UK appears to me to have been a highly fractured collection of people as far back as I can remember, nowhere near as cohesive as some. The most obvious way to point to this is the endemic us-and-them which, although found elsewhere, is the basis of how so many (most ?) people define how they fit into society. Much of that has been and still is only expressed privately whereas outwardly the behaviour is distinctly formulaic. There are other clear divisions but let's just leave it at that.

[ludwig]

She's right. It has got worse. Things are polarising between right and left, Brexit and remain, and the rhetoric has become nastier.

[Canary42]

It's not got nastier (just look at some old Thomas Rowlandson cartoons from Georgian period) but the internet has made it more pervasive, so it just seems worse.

[david small]

Where there is frustration, ignorance and fear you will find intolerance and anger.