What is wrong with people?

[NMMNG]

When tens of thousands, including innocent women and children, are dying for the sake of one groups greed for oil and bizarre desire to hasten the "rapture".

When innocent children are sent off to camps like this and http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/10/20406/0177">this.

When it is becoming illegal for kind-hearted people to feed or even give water to homeless people.

When the death of a human being is met with a response of "who gives a f*ck"?.

When this and so much more is happening in the world today, I can't help but wonder What the is wrong with people???


I feel very much like the guy in this video except I don't want to jump off a building. I want to lock myself in my bedroom until the world starts making sense again.





I know technically a bummer post like this belongs in GD, but if I posted it there it would just get a bunch of crude responses so I chose to post it here.

[Robeson]

1. Don't feel bad Buffy....

...I was pretty much thinking the same thing, and had to go take a 30 minute guitar break to calm down.

:hug:

[NMMNG]

4. Maybe I need a dose of kitty

I'll have some when I get home.

Thanks for the hug.

[Broken_Hero]

2. I dont' know...

To be honest, I'm sure there are 1, to a million reasons why people act, and behave the way they do. I just try to do my best, and I believe thats all than I can possibly do...

[NMMNG]

5. I try to do that myself

But sometimes it feels like I'm fighting a useless, losing battle.


Hopefully after a good day's sleep I'll feel less morose.

[Broken_Hero]

7. Yes

it sure feels like a battle that is useless...but what keeps me going is...their are millions of crack pots on the other side, and if I drop out of the political spectrum, the balance shifts...there is less dissent against the other mindset....and I will not let those ideologies dictate my life...that usually gets a fire under my toes...:)

[mad-mommy]

12. sometimes I feel the same way you do n/t

[Guava Jelly]

3. Oh Buffy..People are just dicks!!

And shits just F'd up.

[NMMNG]

6. T'is true

And dicks are just effing sh*t up. ;-)



Thanks for the hug. :hi:

[buddhamama]

8. i barely understand myself at times

other people's behavior is even more baffling to me. all i can do is be 'me'. i can't let it get to me to the point where i become "them".

what you need is a :hug:

[datasuspect]

9. we are naked monkeys

humanity has always been a horrifying prospect.

[buddhamama]

10. the cynic in me

agrees with you 100%.

[datasuspect]

11. it's not cynical to concede a fact in reality

although humanity has produced an overwhelming amount of good things, there are, sometimes, i think more bad things than good.

on a good day, i think they balance each other out.

but that's one of the bonuses of being a creature with the CAPACITY for reason. you can think about these things and make up your own mind about it.

[LynneSin]

13. People are more concerned about this guy....

.....

Then these guys....

[datasuspect]

15. thanks lynne

i really do like your sensibility.

[L A Woman]

18. that is nonsense

i think most people (clearly not all, but most) can care about more than one thing at a time.

[YankeyMCC]

14. There's a lot wrong with people

and that's kinda the point. We still have to find ways of living with each other, valuing each human life and finding the good things in the people around us while at the same time accepting, or at least dealing with, the things we don't like.

Every time you help someone you're almost never going to like or be able to accept everything about them. But that's just part of being human and you still help them.

But it's probably necessary and good to vent once in a while when there's a particular rise in the craziness and objectionable behavior. ;)

The only serious thing that I would say is "wrong with people" is the apparent general apathy, silence and passive acceptance of the stuff you point out. But perhaps that's your point and yet still that's just another human frailty/failing we have to learn to live with. We can only really be responsible for ourselves.

[ContraBass Black]

16. Posting in the Lounge rather than GD to avoid crude responses?

I've thought about your question, but I'm not sure I want the answers.

[RevCheesehead]

17. Aww, sweetie.....

:hug: Don't let the assholery get you down. :hug:

[Deja Q]

19. It is easier to grieve for many, than it is for one.

Even Mr Spock lamented on the topic once. (and TOS was the only version of Trek to go into this, amongst many other, aspects of human nature.)

The needs of the many, vs. the needs of the few.

I find it easier to feel anger and sadness for many, than it is for one.

Especially when the one did it out of conscious choice. Not a reaction. Not a move made against his will. He chose to do what he did. He even enjoyed doing it.

At least I'm consistent. The idiot race car driver who killed himself got the same response from me too. For I never found sporting to be a logical endeavor, but that's just me.

[SOteric]

20. "Insanity in the individual is rare. In the mass, epoch or nation

it is the rule."

Freidrich Nietsche