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Originally Posted by raging moderate
empathy doesn't really coexist with the survival-of-the-fittest mentality, aka capitalism. The American Way (tm) is to scratch and claw your way to the top with whatever means necessary and then look down on everyone you can with a sort of self-satisfied loathing
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I can agree with (a part of) this sentiment. For most who live in a semi-large populus to those in a beyond-comprehension-bursting-with-people, metal metropolis, there's a certain disconnect that arises in time. It's the overload, or something. I might actually have to think about this the time come I actually want to offer an opinion of my own (
instead of piggybacking on your 'easy' response, which itself is good). I doubt there's one over-riding stamp to which you can classify 300+ million Americans, or do the same amongst other nations, but one big part, I'd say, of that identity is what I'd define as a "cloister'd life".
(This, and more), as it were, matters to me, though, (that, etc.), on the other hand, does not.
It's a selective sort of separatism we endure. Otherwise, just looking at lif as a whole you can't help but say it sucks.