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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
What, then, in your opinion, do we care about?
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Not much, from what I hear and see. We're all wired into a speed trip, running around on the wheel of commerce. Few people have the time to care unless it hits them between the eyes.
How many people do you know who vote solely based on who would lower their taxes? How many people know anything about the world other than entertainment and sports? This board is not representative of most of society. Most educated people talk politics, but nobody's got the time or energy anymore to do anything about it.
People are terribly apathetic and disinterested. Most people just learn to do their job and play fantasy football. Its just the way things go over here. There's time to discuss and fight about politics and the world, but no time to change anything.
There's also an intellectual scorn addressed to people who try to change things. The conventional wisdom is that politicians are scum, the system is busted, and the best you can do is get what you can for yourself and live your life. To be idealistic is comical. Everybody shares a belief that whatever new boss they put in is just the same old boss.
And to a great degree, they're right. Why bother anymore?
