Cell phones, social media, and video games have created a monstrously disconnected populace. It is now possible to associate only with people you find worthy of your limited view of life. This is similar to putting blinders on horses. You end up headed in only one direction. You will never broaden your horizons if you only focus on things pleasing to you. This becomes painfully evident in the callous way we treat the poor. This hurray for me and the hell with you attitude started to gain popularity in the 1980's. The trickle down welfare queen philosophy flowed like honey from the lips of our great communicator. Then 12 years later it reached it's zenith with tax cuts for the rich while conducting two unpaid wars. Fair taxes are the price to be paid for civilization. Now social disregard has reached new heights. Republicans have presented a budget so austere, that if enacted the misery it would inflict on the poor and elderly would rival what America looked like before the advent of Social Security. I would say 99.9 % of people , if they saw a starving child, would try and help alleviate the suffering. Why are so many of us so indifferent to the sufferings of literally millions? It's because of the electronic cocoons we wrap ourselves in. If you only allow in your own myopic view of the world then the blinders you wear will allow the misery to continue.
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