They’re on both sides you know. Left and right and all in between. We are all part of the problem. We just don’t care a whole lot. Not about the right things anyway. Sure, some of us actually care about our family and friends. But in the right way? Do we care about their health and their environment? Or do we care about what they think of us and our stuff? And do we care about others outside of our circle and the world in general or do we care about whether we get a new TV for another room?
Don’t get me wrong. Some of us care a whole lot. There are some who put their whole lives into caring. I’m sorry, I’m not one of them. But a lot of us don’t care much at all. I’m not one of them either. I’m just saying the average isn’t good.
See, animals don’t have this problem. They don’t have a choice. They care about what they need to care about to survive and to propagate and to thrive. Somewhere along monkey or later we developed this big brain with the ability to care about other things. But when we were in the tribe if we cared about the wrong things for too long we either became ruler and ruined the tribe or the rest of the tribe would beat us. To correct our thinking so to speak.
Segregation of duties and separation of families and people have in part created a situation where we don’t have to care. Or at least we think we don’t. So has plentifulness and the feeling that we need more of what we already have. My guess is all this is going to come bite us.
Many don’t even care to think much at all.
Think. Care. Survive. Thrive.