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What's the deal with society, amiright?

When did we stop caring about society? When did the issues of societal pressures and conformity become an undesirable topic? Our world still sucks, we suck at being a society!

Society, in practically every way imaginable, is flawed, while there at times the public eye is focused on an issue or two, practically everything else is overshadowed, to even bring up anything other than "current issues" is apparently incredulous. The problems that we so fervently opposed in the past are [i]as[/i] present if not more than they were in their time!

I think the prime motivation behind anyone's concern for anything is fear & insecurity - fear of not doing & believing the same things as is conventionally expected of them, fearful towards the consequences of defying society. So practically everything that is done, & all the passion that resides there with it, is meaningless & powerless, for any affects that are achieved with fickle sentiments will fade just as quickly as they arrived.

You don't need to be passionate about the things contemporary culture is passionate about, particularly if your interest is inauthentic & passing, useful to nobody. There's a world of issues to be addressed, what will solve them is seldom false thought & compassion, but if you could care & be different yourself, if you could even simply stand independently, with integrity to your thoughts & ideology (that you deliberately decide upon), your independent acts would explain themselves, & perhaps you could help upset the conventional model of society & set up something anew in its place.
sighmeupforthat · 46-50, M
oh, i find many are still giving a fuck, look at the advancements in medicine.


tell that to my wife who has stage 4 non small cell lung cancer and is battling it for her 3rd year.

knock on wood.


stop listening to the media, death and destruction makes dollars for them.


i volunteer my time to the low vision artists and bringing their.. oh i'm talking to a wall no doubt.

:P
Winterwanderer · 26-30, M
Why do you think me a wall? Hast I exhibited the characteristics of a wall?

Of course there are individuals, outliers, but they are such a small & scattered few. There have been times when American society did more than bicker & hate, but as a whole dreamt together. Not to say days of old were perfect, but in many ways we've lost things that used to be characteristic of us, and surrendered to things that we were previously opposed to.
Ironicman · 56-60, M
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freedom45 · 70-79, F
Yes the answers of caring and seeing the need come from within.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
Think Globally... Act locally.

 
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