Incomplete thoughts, but hey its 2021

 

                There is so much about human nature that baffles me, some of the biggest is the indifference towards others. No one needs to know relationship status of others despite what E! thinks, but that isn’t what I mean. In America we seem to live in bubbles, there is this sense that our actions won’t affect anyone else. This is evident in how almost all of us drive, we have a me first attitude where we’ll cut someone off or tailgate in an effort to make someone go faster.
                The point is that we don’t put enough effort into how our actions can affect those around us. Some may not care, others do. Some people will feel bad about traffic indiscretions, thinking it was an accident or a mental lapse. Others feel that its their right to drive like an idiot.

                I bring this up to highlight the hemming and hawing about wearing a mask. It is ultimately the same. If you legitimately care about those around you, you are going to wear a mask. If you are the type of person who doesn’t care about the near accidents, you will refuse. There is a big difference between those who think about others and those who think only about themselves.

                 I personally can’t imagine what it is like to think only about myself, to not consider different medical situations. To think that fatal disease will only reach me if I think it’s real. To ignore that it’s a problem worldwide, and that it has an effect on the global economy.

                How insane do you need to be in order to believe that protecting those around you is a constitutional question? How insane do you need to be to claim that taking measures to protect your neighbors is wrong? Why is listening to scientists a bad thing? Why is it that upholding the golden rule means ignoring how people wish to be treated? Why are people persecuted because they have a science degree?

                I don’t understand why America is so anti-science and anti-fact. Are we afraid of the truth? Are we no longer the ideal democracy? Can we not deal with the fact that we aren’t the ideal? So many countries are leading us in obvious categories like health care, vacation times, and ultimately happiness.

                Our response, we need more guns, we need less pay, we need less vacation, we need more gofundme’s.
                This is supposed to be the richest country in the world, why is it that our best healthcare is gofundme? Why are our employees burnt out? Why are women afraid of having children? Oh right, because our entire philosophy is built on the assumption that the rich will find ways to spread their wealth to those below them.

                Again, how insane do you need to be in order to believe that? The rich are going to spend money on useless shit, but that is almost assuredly going to be a one time payment. The poor might spend money on useless shit, but the useless shit differs. The rich will buy a yacht, the poor will buy a dinner. Who benefits from those orders is huge. The people who build the yacht might see something that year, but the people who are involved in that dinner will likely see an increase yearly.