I sometimes wonder if the human race is losing its ability to care.
We have “evolved” to a place where the artificial currency we created (money) is all that seems to matter and other humans are just seen as something in the way.
I can’t help but wonder if we are heading into a world where there is no more progress to make, we’ve forgotten our roots and going forward it’s simply misery and trying to fill a void.
Food is sold for a profit. And will sooner be thrown out than donated or reduced in price.
Heat and electricity is sold for a profit.
There is no option to exist where it isn’t expensive.
There is a growing community of “rough living” but they are seen as a nuisance.. I know there is mental health concerns among some unhoused people but here in my Province you can’t tell me we went from a few hundred unhoused people to a few THOUSAND simply because of addiction or mental health. There is a societal problem here. People do not care.
Quite a few years ago now, I remember my co-worker talking about how their house was build, a group of friends got together with some materials and just built a house for them. Even then telling the story (circa 2010/2011) she mentioned that you’d never see that these days. This has been coming for many years now, government can’t be blamed because there’s been so many changes since that time.
Simply put, society has changed and they do not care.
I have no solution to this problem. It seems we go through this in history every few hundred years (although is seems to be happening faster now).
Hopefully kindness will come back in style soon. Or climate change will take us out finally.
Honestly I’m happy with either option at this point.