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RE: "Why Don't People Care?!?"

in #anarchy7 years ago

Hi larkenrose, I like this project and the intent behind it. The problem of others 'caring' is tricky. For many it seems that it is only the approach of immediate personal calamity that prompts them from their slumber and focuses attention on what matters. For some, they will simply sleepwalk into oblivion/totalitarian madness, never realising that it is happening, and more to the point, that they actually have a say in it (for example, the so-called 'progressive left' in the West right now, and everyone who unthinkingly goes along with them). I suspect that 'caring' is a maturation and hierarchical issue - rather like Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs. So when your basic needs are met, you are then free to care about others around you getting their basic needs met too, but until then, you are too busy just basically surviving. Most in the developed world have their basic needs met - but most do not have real self-esteem, and certainly very few are 'self-actualised' - something that for most is a vague, misunderstood myth of 'enlightenment'. Our very society is structured in such a way that self-esteem is constantly undermined - basically, because insecure people with low self-esteem will spend a fortune on things they don't really need, such a big government, military, and lots of material goodies, because they are trying to fill that gap without realising what they actually are doing. So a few parasitical people get very rich, most struggle, and life goes on... Until these needs start being met, giving a flying fuck about anything else just won't happen. These, I believe, are the issues that need addressing before 'caring for everyone' becomes simply an unspoken truism of society, rather than a luxury that only the sensitive edge of the 'bell curve' of personality-types will occupy themselves with. Good luck with this project, I will support you when and how I can. Db