Ramble on

"Can you look at a guy and say he's an American who fought for his liberty and anybody can see he's a very different guy from a Canadian who didn't? No by god you can't and that's that."

I believe those who beg for money on the side of the road are making society less empathetic because they try not to give them money. This is a vast over-generalization, but I believe it gets the point across. It's no surprise that the human race is becoming more and more apathetic as time goes on, given the way the world is now. Media is showing more and more vulgarity, gore, and violence than before, and more people are getting exposed to this at younger and younger ages. This exposure is desensitizing us collectively and we respond less and less to this stimuli (an argument shown to me by Bobby). However, I believe that the desensitization is only to a limited extent, with the border being the killings we see in media (which we shrug off as it is not affecting us in any immediate way) to 'ignoring' the beggar on the side of the road. This is a generalized barrier, with a rough definition that varies from person to person. In support of this barrier's existence, I...

This can hold many concepts, such as the entire existence we experience is not real, ie; simulation, prison, nothing more than what we experience, or it could be the reality we experience as a citizen is not real, ie; the government and regulated world/news we see daily is all fabricated to create a 1984-ish life