Originally posted by Interpol
How do you know we don't feel that burning rage and desire within us? You don't. You're guessing. But it's stupid and naive to act like it's impossible for us to truly care.
You're saying the thousands of deaths on 9/11 didn't effect you, and then make the ridiculous assertion that they shouldn't effect us either? What if you knew someone who died that day? What if your closest friend knew someone who died that day? Or what if we just have the capacity to understand the grief and suffering that was inflicted upon our fellow citizens? Do you honestly believe that is only because we have all been brainwashed? If you do, then you've got a lot to learn.
I'm sorry I was not clear on that. I'm not guessing, I'm telling you what I saw from the many conversations I've had with various people.
I noticed a trend. I could say the exact same sentence (which is rather offending) and get the same response from alot of people. And then I would call them on it and they would not know why they reacted that way.
Ofcourse you can care. There is nothing bad about that. Good for you, you are a person this post does not apply to. Others will simply look at the ideas, feel like there may be truth and accept them. Most people look at the bible and accept it. When I look at it, I'm often saying 'wtf? That's not right.' The problem is people don't think. People accept that 9/11 happened and everyone was crying on tv so they should feel bad. They never once asked themselves 'Do I feel bad?'
What I'm picking at isn't that it's being fake to feel bad or show some compassion, it's that a lot of people only do so for the sake of an image. They are defending an opinion that is not theirs because they have never given a thought to what is their opinion.
Originally posted by Interpol
Well, first of all I think this is a cop-out response, but lets pretend this is what you really meant. Thanks for just summarizing the central theme of Fight Club, as if that hasn't been discussed around here enough already.
No, I wasn't at all thinking about Fight Club at the time.
A lot of people are sticking up for a personality, a character, that they themselves do not believe in. It's like being of a certain religion without ever thinking about it. You were told you were going to be [religion here] and you accepted it. Worse... you defend it.
When you try to get these people to think for (honestly) the first time in their lives, you get 'I'm too tired to think'. It's being part of an equation but not taking part in the reaction. You're just 'there'.
The 'you' throughout is not target at you in particular blienk.
But it saddens me that the same person resides within 99% of the people I see.