| | i realized today that we live in a time of "not caring" . Many of my friends need to assert their individuality by not caring about how they affect others, what their actions mean etc. as long as they advance their own agenda in this race to be apathetically cool. I'm not talking about the grunge days of the early nineties, that was an outward in your face, we don't care. It was more honest and meaningful. No, now people are passive aggressive about not caring. It's not the same as doing something nice for someone else, but i think the reasoning behind why people do it is not the same. It's like they have a motive. For example, someone may have sent you a postcard because you were sick, but instead of doing it because they were actually worried about your well being, they may have done it so you'd be more attached to them or they saw it as a chance to network. These are the kind of people that don't return phone calls, or break plans just cuz, or say "no" to something because they need to wash their hair. They don't really want to not go, but by staying busy and not caring they want themselves to seem important. It's sorta like when people keep themselves on AIM just so their names on the screen, but they're not typing anything or even there, just so people will leave them messages and they can say to themselves "i'm wanted, yay". Pssh. I've noticed this with society all over, especially my own age group. It's kind of a nonchalant "whatever". I wander if anyone else has noticed it? I mean, in the eighties people got all emotional about shit, nineties, people were strongly apathetic in a meaningful way, and now i think people are just nonchalant to keep themselves from real life attachments and experience. It's really sad...:( |
| | Posted 10/19/2005 7:00 PM - 1 View - 0 eProps - 1 Comment
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