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zeemike

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23. What we have become is isolated from humanity.

Sat Feb 28, 2015, 04:33 PM

Feb 2015

We all have our own little boxes to live in and basically the outside world is full of threats in our minds...And every day on the TV we see more reasons to stay in our little box where it is safe and warm...other people are just are objects to us.
We pass them on the street and never look in their eyes.

And the saddest part is I see no change in that at all...the more fear there is the worse it gets.

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What have we become? [View all] MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 OP

K & R.nt m-lekktor Feb 2015 #1

the person filming this did nothing? all who walked by...how sad spanone Feb 2015 #2

'Social expirment' does mean staged. christx30 Feb 2015 #27

I think this was an experiment. The kid was the two boys' little brother, and PatrickforO Feb 2015 #28

Thank God we're a Christian nation. PedXing Feb 2015 #40

LOL. In a way, Christianity is like taxes. PatrickforO Mar 2015 #46

That's horrible. KMOD Feb 2015 #3

why find it hard to believe guillaumeb Feb 2015 #4

Yeah, clearly this kid should just pull himself up by his bootstraps... PatrickforO Feb 2015 #29

Oh, wait...he doesn't have boots? nt kelliekat44 Mar 2015 #51

What have we become? GuntherGebelWilliams Feb 2015 #5

I've seen it myself in NYC MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #6

Me too Man from Pickens Feb 2015 #13

Another evil that Reagan did to America, also further stigmatizing the mentally ill AZ Progressive Feb 2015 #24

I feel sorry for you. 99Forever Feb 2015 #10

Textbook example of missing the thrust of the post. 11 Bravo Feb 2015 #17

I generally like to greet new members... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2015 #30

So much empathy from you. Shame. 840high Feb 2015 #37

Never took a sociology class huh? n/t ReRe Feb 2015 #41

So, you think skepticism kept all those people chervilant Mar 2015 #48

Kitty Genovese Fumesucker Feb 2015 #7

..... BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2015 #16

. In_The_Wind Feb 2015 #8

K&R the homeless have become invisible to some, the norm for others azurnoir Feb 2015 #9

This: chervilant Mar 2015 #49

Thanks Manny. 99Forever Feb 2015 #11

this was posted yesterday and few fucks were given Tsiyu Feb 2015 #12

Jesus - and Charles Dickens - would weep! LongTomH Feb 2015 #14

Thank you! daredtowork Feb 2015 #15

One (very) slight mitigating factor. Stonepounder Feb 2015 #18

K&R. JDPriestly Feb 2015 #19

From the Grapes of Wrath... Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2015 #20

+1... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2015 #31

Thank you They_Live Feb 2015 #21

I leave a cardboard box 840high Feb 2015 #38

I have often wondered... Oilwellian Feb 2015 #22

What we have become is isolated from humanity. zeemike Feb 2015 #23

Thanks to all for keeping. this out TheKentuckian Feb 2015 #25

Wow, just wow.... giftedgirl77 Feb 2015 #26

Thanks for reporting.... daleanime Feb 2015 #32

Speechless. K^R n/t Tom Rinaldo Feb 2015 #33

I posted it here (GD)... one_voice Feb 2015 #34

I added an update to the OP to mention that. MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #39

, blkmusclmachine Feb 2015 #35

... Lifelong Protester Feb 2015 #36

I am so proud that he and I share some of the same DNA jimlup Feb 2015 #42

This is what happens when a nation cares more for the 1% WHEN CRABS ROAR Feb 2015 #43

K&R JEB Feb 2015 #44

Did you help the woman who Control-Z Mar 2015 #45

Where were the Wall Street bankers/hedge fund owners/grifters? Divernan Mar 2015 #47

You know damn well what we have become. And it ain't pretty. nt kelliekat44 Mar 2015 #50