There are so many things to care about on this planet. I sometimes feel that my head will burst for trying to remember to care about things. Its like I've got a Damocles sword hanging over my head at all times: If you don't care about the children in Africa, you are not human and your human license will be revoked; If you don't care about the disappearing dolphins, your human license will be revoked and you will be the worst excuse for a human that can be; If you can't remember that farmers are dying right at this moment/the Narmada is drying up and villagers are being displaced all the time, you are not a caring and well rounded individual.
The thing is that I'd like to think that I'm a caring and human as anyone can be. But I don't think its humanly possible to be agitated and thinking about things to agitate about all the time. Its just not humanly possible. The brain does not work that way for most people. How is it possible to be so empathetic to things that you are not actually experiencing that you can howl in agony as if its happening to you? You just don't have the requisite life experiences to relate to, most of the time! At least most of us don't. You can be shocked. You can intellectually disgusted and even scared about whats being written about, in case it happens to you, but crying like its your leg's being cut off? I'm sorry I find that hard to believe.
So when I read all my social media feeds, I feel like the right scum for just being bored by everyone agitating all the time. I feel no normal sympathy for the things being agitated about even if I would have cared about it in normal circumstances. It just feels so useless. Its not even logical to rant about important things in social media which does nothing, and affects nothing.
If you wanted to do something worthwhile then do it at the playing field on which the problem is currently happening. Not on the bloody internet. Especially when the people you are agitating about definitely does not have access to the education or the technology you are using to see whats being said.
The thing is that I'd like to think that I'm a caring and human as anyone can be. But I don't think its humanly possible to be agitated and thinking about things to agitate about all the time. Its just not humanly possible. The brain does not work that way for most people. How is it possible to be so empathetic to things that you are not actually experiencing that you can howl in agony as if its happening to you? You just don't have the requisite life experiences to relate to, most of the time! At least most of us don't. You can be shocked. You can intellectually disgusted and even scared about whats being written about, in case it happens to you, but crying like its your leg's being cut off? I'm sorry I find that hard to believe.
So when I read all my social media feeds, I feel like the right scum for just being bored by everyone agitating all the time. I feel no normal sympathy for the things being agitated about even if I would have cared about it in normal circumstances. It just feels so useless. Its not even logical to rant about important things in social media which does nothing, and affects nothing.
If you wanted to do something worthwhile then do it at the playing field on which the problem is currently happening. Not on the bloody internet. Especially when the people you are agitating about definitely does not have access to the education or the technology you are using to see whats being said.
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