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my_window_seatI think maybe the reason so many more people now:
- Care very little about what doesn't affect them personally
- Are after as much as they can get and hang onto for themselves alone
- Feel like, tough-luck-for-the-next-guy-but-it-really-isn't-my-problem -
I think the reason is that a lot more people feel like they have to.
Because no one is looking out for them, so they have to do it alone - at any and all cost. And with repeated use, it just gets easier and easier to justify unintentially screwing the next guy over.
I think there used to be a lot more in the way of family support that people could rely on in times of need. When you have back-up, I think it lowers the subconscious need to scrounge - and gouge out someone else eye's along the way to do it.
Very few people that I know personally have any kind of safety net. The ones that do are still just barely getting by.
I don't think it excuses a lot of the horror I see in people's everyday behaviour towards each other - but, for me at least, I think it at least partially explains it.
And depresses the hell out of me, too.
- Care very little about what doesn't affect them personally
- Are after as much as they can get and hang onto for themselves alone
- Feel like, tough-luck-for-the-next-guy-but-it-really-isn't-my-problem -
I think the reason is that a lot more people feel like they have to.
Because no one is looking out for them, so they have to do it alone - at any and all cost. And with repeated use, it just gets easier and easier to justify unintentially screwing the next guy over.
I think there used to be a lot more in the way of family support that people could rely on in times of need. When you have back-up, I think it lowers the subconscious need to scrounge - and gouge out someone else eye's along the way to do it.
Very few people that I know personally have any kind of safety net. The ones that do are still just barely getting by.
I don't think it excuses a lot of the horror I see in people's everyday behaviour towards each other - but, for me at least, I think it at least partially explains it.
And depresses the hell out of me, too.
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Date: 2004-08-28 08:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-28 08:21 am (UTC)Thanks so much though - you're - you're - you're so ANT!
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Date: 2004-09-08 08:33 am (UTC)Since you've sent me a response to my journal that time, who ever you are, I've decided to add you to my freind list to read your entries. I wanted to mention that one of the things that I've dedicating myself to dedicating, are some of the issues that you've touched on this entry. My writings are empirical and are supported by my observations and some demographis statistics, so superficialy my research papers in school are a little weak for this reason. (Doesn't mean that I don't aceive A's with them, though.)
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Date: 2004-09-09 12:52 am (UTC)I'm just me. That's all.
I've decided to add you to my freind list to read your entries
Bon Appetite, but do be aware that you're letting yourself in for a lot of strident opinions, four-letter words, and general mumblings.
My writings are empirical and are supported by my observations and some demographis statistics, so superficialy my research papers in school are a little weak for this reason. (Doesn't mean that I don't aceive A's with them, though.)
Mine are probably similar, and I get A's on my papers, too. But even an A on what I know in my heart is a sub-par paper compared to what I could really do isn't nearly as satisfying as when I know I've stretched myself and actually learned something in the process. Over-achiever? The hell you say...