When People Are Fragile

 If you'd asked me in 1978 about the fragility of people....I would said that 99-percent of people were remarkably anti-fragile.  

If you asked me in 2023 about the fragility of people....I'd say we are at a point where 5-to-8 percent of population are in some form of being fragile.  They can't handle bad news...multi-tasking...a bad score on some test....a confrontation with their spouse or co-worker....people who oppose their political view....or the nightly news.

Your 15-year old kid might be fragile enough....that one sign of disrespect from a class-mate....might be enough to set them off....clobbering the friend in the hallway, and getting suspended from school for a week.

Your wife might be fragile enough....to be asking for medication to keep her doped-up most of the day....because she can't handle the stress of normal life.

Your boss might be holding 2-hour team meetings each day because he's awful fragile over the results and work produced.  

It's to the point now where you (the non-fragile person) have to contend with the situation and try to protect the fragile person.  After a while, you start to notice at least ten folks in this landscape.....all non-fragile....gathered up and acting in some way as a team for the fragile guy/gal to survive.  

I would suggest....sooner or later....the teams out there, will wake up and say 'enough', dumping their fragile associate.  It'll be like the zombie-movies that we often imagine....just filled with fragile people running amok and asking people to return to their sworn 'duty'.