The roots of incivility -" rotten lady "

A 68 year old  woman with cerebral palsy -who struggles
   to be independent - was not fast enough at the check out
   counter of a small department store for the nasty woman
   behind her - who even shouted obscenities at the 68 year
   old woman in a wheel chair.( " Have a rotten day ! " -
   letter to the editor, July 12 )
       Adrienne Daniels - the abused woman - asks: " What
   do you say to someone like that ? "
       You can't say much to a person with the brain of a
   reptile, I suppose.
         The crowded , noisy, ugly, unfriendly urban
   environment awakens the reptilian brain that lurks
   in all of us.The crowd is too alien to relate to. More
   and more there are only tribal loyalities. Respect is
   reserved for recognized members of the tribe.
       At some point civilization itself will certainly
   break down.
         Can intelligent people continue to ignore
    the nightmarish population explosion ?
        Can human dignity survive in world of wretched
    billions - doubling in population every few decades ?
       And horror of horrors , poverty is far more reproductive
    than affluence .
         The everyday meanness - such as Adrienne Daniels
    encountered in the department store - will not disappear
    in the ever more crowded world of the bleak future.

         " Be fruitful and multiply ", saith the Lord.

          But when will He say : " Enough is enough ! "  ?