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Lordandmaster -> RE: the silver lining (6/24/2008 8:05:23 PM)
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Like most other things people do, bitching is a survival technique, and it's effective when there's someone to listen and do something about it. That's why people bitch at the customer-service counter after Christmas. Usually, retailers value customers' business and therefore feeling obliged to respond to bitching. But people who bitch at the customer-service counter after Christmas are hardly suffering. The whole point is that they're NOT suffering; otherwise they'd have to do a whole lot more than just bitch to get their problems solved. Bitching becomes ineffective when there's no one around to make things better--or when someone who could make things better doesn't respond to bitching. And that's kinda what happens when people suffer: bitching doesn't work anymore, so people have to solve their own problems. You can blame other people, sure, but when it's a matter of survival, blaming other people isn't going to solve your problems either.
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