Reasons Why People Don't Care [understanding]

8/23/2013
I've been reading about Syria.
A government turning on its people.

I've been reading about Manning. About Snowden. About super high speed trains.
I've been reading about Fukushima. I've been reading about fish in the Pacific Northwest.
How LSD doesn't cause mental illness. How teenagers murdered a man because they were bored.

I've been skimming the headlines, clicking on the links.

Trying to be aware.
But if I suddenly became homeless and had to settle in Forest Park
I wouldn't know the difference.
My personal world has not changed.
Not because of the war, or other people's wars, or even nuclear meltdowns.
And if I lived there, I know I'd probably be dead.
But I don't, and I'm not. It's no more my fault for being here than it was for them being there.

And I don't have a connection to anyone who could do anything about any of it.

I still read the headlines, but I can understand why nobody cares.
What can be done?
And even if you wrote to every politician, got every signature, even spoke in front of millions -
most of us would still just be wastoid-perma-adolecents from bad areas of town, wouldn't we?

And while that still shouldn't stop us - I understand why it does.

Why we don't fight harder.
Why we glaze over.
Why we shut it out.

We just want to be happy.
And a personal happiness seems to be the only option.

Then again...

First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.