Re: atmosphere...all go insane

[Tony Douglas <tonyisyourpal@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi there,

--- kkissinger@kevinkissinger.com wrote:

> 
> We have reached a point where people tune everything
> out unless it  
> directly affects them.
> 

I hate to be the grumbly cynic in the corner here, but
the word I'm thinking of is "selfishness". The
attitude du jour seems to be, "There is nothing more
important than what *I* want to do; if *I* want to
talk, or ignore you, or barge in front of you in a
queue, or blindly bump into you because *I'm* having a
conversation, then *I'm* going to !"

*Warning: politics ahead ...*
In the UK, we had for many years a government whose
stated position was, "there is no such thing as
society - there are only individuals". I think this
unbridled individualism, which manifests itself in
many acts and opinions, large and small, that can only
be described as selfish, is the inevitable result of
that kind of attitude.
*Politics behind you now.*

Or, as Peter Porter put it in Japanese Jokes :

Somewhere at the heart
of the Universe sounds the
true mystic note: Me

- Tony



                
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