We pound the right wing stuff ad nauseum on this forum and the stock nostrums bore my ass off. Sometimes it's DEI/whatever and sometimes there are other things at play.

I SERIOUSLY doubt it was unqualified DEI/diversity hires willfully fucking things up like a big joke, and I also SERIOUSLY doubt that it was sabotage.

I suggest an alternative factor which is orthogonal to the whole DEI thing but is also a prevailing feature of our time -

Impatience, lack of mindfulness, and hurry up mentality, combined with carelessness and not giving a shit. Everyone, everywhere from what I have experienced.

This has become pervasive in our culture. In public someone is always up your ass to hurry up or is tailgating you or is rolling their eyes that you're taking too much God Damned Fucking time to do whatever you are doing that is blocking their need for speed. I mean God Damn You anyway, I should KILL you because you didn't pull away from the light to suit my speed. Die, die, die.

That's what I get in vibes going out anywhere in public, either walking through the grocery, driving, or going about some business.

Well, you either experience this as people breathing down your throat or up your ass. Or you are among the millions of asshat thoughtless normies doing these things and wishing people ahead of you in your way would horribly die and vanish so you could do stuff faster.

It crosses party lines, races, and levels of competency.

Case study in the workplace, I'm certain that these stories are, ahem, "legion":

My wife took a production job - making small custom electronic pieces for a local medical equipment vendor - about 2 years ago. Stuff that was of too small production runs to be able to be produced cost effectively by machines, such as winding small coils or fabricating test probes. She lasted about 3 weeks, and quit. From the first day OTJ her manager was insulting her productivity and her personally, and treating her to her face like a retard. The people my wife saw who seemed well thought of by management were super fast and not particularly careful. She got sick of being dissed, was certain she was being set up to the fired, and left.

So I could see the management in the crew that maintained that plane being ridden hard to just get boxes checked off on inspection forms, and the techs themselves had learned to not give a shit.

I even see it out our living room window. The guy across the street has a riding mower that he drives on his lawn like he's in a drag race. I used to think of riding mowers as having a cup holder for your beer while you enjoyably mow your lawn. Not this guy, it's totally 100% about impatience and reckless speed. This neighbor's gonna flip his mower sometime. And he's a decent guy to my face.

This attitude of rushing and inattention is without doubt prevalent in most occupations now. Maybe not with surgeons, hopefully.

I mean, just try to tell me there isn't a lot to this. It's a cultural shift I've seen take hold since the pandemic, maybe around 2020.

I believe this impatience and recklessness is the natural reaction to full time jobs being reduced to part time, rampant inflation, and loss of civility from the COVID lockdowns. We feel like a different country than we did in 2019.