Between the Bars: Comments on 'Hello People & Peoplettes'https://betweenthebars.org/posts/commentfeed/79762012-11-29T09:35:14ZComment2012-11-29T09:35:14Zarcadiaego/people/show/6084tag:betweenthebars.org,2012-11-29:/posts/7976/hello-people-peoplettes/comments
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<span class='comment-date'>Posted 11 years, 4 months ago.</span>
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Thanks for writing! I finished the transcription for your post.
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Comment2012-11-26T21:43:16ZSpryte/people/show/5258tag:betweenthebars.org,2012-11-26:/posts/7976/hello-people-peoplettes/comments
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I wish you had been outside the walls in the aftermath of 9/11. There were no party lines...just Americans and I was never more proud then at that time to be counted amongst such a people. <br /><br />Maybe I've grown somewhat cynical since then because it seems that when we tackle crisis, it all seems like a giant united front while the cameras are rolling. The minute they are diverted to the next disaster, interest falls off. As I child, I caught my first glimpse of this craving for sensationalism, to be noticed doing something good as if without the notice, it's just not as worthwhile. I'm as repulsed by it now as I was then.<br /><br />I don't think we've ever lived in such selfish times as we do now. There's no demographic for it though...I've seen it in the young, the old, the rich, the poor, both political parties, atheists and religious zealots. We believe we're entitled to what another person has, whether we worked or sacrificed for it as they did. We are so easily offended...as if it were a god-given right to have the world exist to placate us. Technology imprisons us while giving us the illusion of free time, easier access to what we desire and cloaking us each in anonymity.<br /><br />The reason mankind will fail utterly, unless it wakes up (and I'm optimistic about that really)is because it always takes the path of least resistence. I mean sure...there are individuals out there...those people that don't quite fit the accepted norm and find their own path instead...but they are becoming a rare bird. If that day should ever come when the species becomes extinct...then we are all doomed.<br /><br />But I don't think that will happen. I truly think that the scales will start to tip again...as they tend to do when we reach one extreme or another. I would love to be alive to see it...I have a feeling that the opposite of "me" is "we" and won't that be something?
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