I think I meant something much narrower than that. It's logistical. I can get all fired up reading DU, ready to take to the streets, outraged to my toes - but what happens when I get up from my chair? My neighbor is cutting his grass. The other is watching TV. A third is sunbathing. Another is "making the Andrea Doria out of balsa wood", etc.

If I storm outta my house all in a rage.......I'm just nuts. I'm the nutty neighbor because they not only don't know what got me hot - they aren't even discussing anything at all.

I just wonder if Mexico might be just "behind" enough that the main entertainment is still the technologically simple one of neighbors in neighborhood watering holes. Where entire rooms full of folks can get all hotted up about the same injustice all at the same time! And storm out into the neighborhood where people say "what's Juan all upset about?" Because they actually know Juan. And so on and so on.

Remember how much of our history is tied up with pubs and beer and impromptu declarations inside pubs while drinking beer.