Pease Porridge Hot

While trying to give my characters a sense of meaning to their lives, I've angered them up a bit, prepping them for a big event. Only one problem - what's the event going to be? If you take away other humans as targets for anger, what do you replace them with? What external target is enough to band a diverse group of people together to focus on? It sure isn't planetary survival because ten percent of the people are turned off by environmental activism. It sure isn't military strategy because another ten percent are turned off by war.

What about the eighty percent who don't get riled up by anything, focused as they are on normal, everyday living? I hate using mass hysteria or threats.

Maybe that's the issue I should focus on, the eighty percent who sit still, relatively speaking, and watch the other twenty percent duke it out. Nahhh...who would be interested in that? lol

Hmm...so we have the quiet majority who get by without needing major issues to drive them from day-to-day, satisfied as they are with themselves. Let's see. Isn't that my own goal? Yes, of course it is. So, then, how do I get the other twenty percent to seek what the happy majority already have found and are satisfied with? Now that's the story we'd all like to see resolved. Imagine the peace and quiet we'd have then!

It's decided. While world leaders and local dealers divide the world into their territories, the ones in between will be working to unite the world for the next Pax Romana.