People tend not to "care", in general. The human mind isn't constructed for it [insert caring cavemen mammoth hunting ineptcy prob]
So it goes without saying, most people don't care. There's a few that do, however. They tend to find themselves alienated, isolated, unable to trust anything people around them say. They aren't wrong. Can't really trust, almost anyone, and in a way - not even themselves :confused:
In my experience this happens mostly because we live in a world of apathy & shallow, self-important, deluded hypocrisy, so the vast majority of people will have a serious problem dealing w/ the few of us that, actually, do feel a deeper 'social consciousness' & need for closeness, than most.
They'll becomes acquaintances, friends, or lovers, but then sooner rather than later we'll become an emotional burden to their lives, if confronted they'll say we're "too intense" ; We tend to wear them down, and they avoid us. We go back to being lonely, the cycle continues.
Unless they enlighten and make a really difficult, conscious & constant effort, 'modern humans' remain animals, entirely manipulated by this : The Selfish Gene - by Richard Dawkins rather than being driven by 'humanity' or 'our own emergent sapient self-awareness'.
After spending lifetimes dealing with this jarring pain and loneliness, an irreverent, unmistakable feeling will usually surface - "Am I being punished..? Surely something this excruciating has got to be deserved, right..?"
I know this isn't conventional belief - But the Occam's Razor explanation here is that this one Universe we're currently alleged to be existing in, simply does not care - for lack of a better expression - about our objectively inconsequential existences.
Which would mean, to get a better life you must use your human self-aware capabilities, such as cognition, judgement, etc, & make life better for yourself, you have to actually fight the default states of indifferent rules of physics & chaotic outcomes which, through a 'cosmic policy' of neglect profoundly harmful to living beings, hinder them from reaching bliss, happiness, understanding, fulfillment, & actually promote suffering, misery & eventually extinction.
Now subjectively, our lives, our struggles, our pain & triumphs can & do matter. They matter to us. They matter to the people we loathe, and the people we love.
I think it's perfectly fine to emotionally & subconsciously think of ourselves as self-important & do our best to get what we want & what drives us, regardless of the nagging possibility in our logical brain that we most likely indeed are meaningless at the cosmic scale. So what? It's good enough, 'real' enough, for us to toil feverishly & endeavor towards our fulfillment.
And that's precisely why the lives, the struggles, the joys, the pain we'll experience inside the oncoming full-sensorium immersive whole-brain virtual realities, will matter, and not one bit less than this allegedly original 'reality' we were born in.
The brain is pretty much like a muscle. It has to be trained and used to strengthen. The brain has many facilities though, and just as if you train your legs and not your arms, you will have strong legs and week arms, you csn train certain faculties of the brain and neglect others. In our society, we train people to react so that they can be good consumers and we sometimes train them to think, at least to the level that is needed, so that they can be good employees. We don't train people to care. It's not that people cannot care [insert refutal of the caveman myth] , it's really just a matter of training.