Originally Posted by
nain rouge
But see, society used to not be like this. When you hear stories about how people helped each other out during the Great Depression, for example, you get a sense that life wasn't always like this. Sure, at the end of day, you're gonna let the next guy starve before you starve, but back then people were more willing to lend a hand to their neighbors.
We're basically sociopathic now. A lot of that has to do with the life of relative comfort we were born into, and the intense and pitiful focus on our self-esteem as children [[of course, almost every American will have some story about how their childhoods were different, but that's part of our pervasive "I'm special" mentality we all harbor). We're spoiled brats.[/COLOR]