It’s a good question and a fair question but the real answer involves confronting some disturbing home truths about multiple generations who are ill-educated, emotionally incontinent, impatient, lack impulse control, cannot connect cause and effect, and who therefore believe there are no consequences because they cannot conjure them through experience, intelligence or imagination.
Trash culture is a significant and growing portion of all demographic segments. Technology has filtered down to the lowest common denominator meaning the ignorant are as conversant with the world via social media as published writers used to be via books. Trash culture is celebrated, reinforced, perpetuated. Tattoos, TikTok videos, selfies, a life spent in sweat pants.
In those people’s world fast food is a serious thing. It offers stimulus, reinforcement, and a usually reliable timetable even as it’s cheap and non-nutritious. Upsetting their Pavlovian schedule is like tossing someone out of an airplane without a parachute. Disorientation, panic, anger, desperation follow.
The now-common use of potent cannabis, often on a daily basis, has further warped their perception, reactions and permanently altered their brain anatomy and chemistry. Alcohol and opioids are also usually involved.
The result: zombies who may throw random tantrums with deadly results.
Great analysis and unfortunately so very true!
That is Amazing!