What is so wrong with caring?

A sign hangs in my window stating, "kids don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." The other day two seniors were pointing at the sign and laughing. I know it's not cool to care too much about anything when you're in high school, but the whole scene left me thinking about all the people I hear on a daily basis exclaiming, "Oh, I don't care about _________."


It's the apathy, stupid.


The deeper gears of my brain link this feeling of not giving a shit to the reasons that a great county like the United States is nosediving into a ruthless capitalist society where merit, justice, and talent lose to nepotism, cronyism, and bureaucracy. Not to oversimplify, but when smart people start losing out to an idiot with friends in high places everyone suffers - think Brown formerly of FEMA shame.


So what? So let's start caring again. Care about everything from politics to people.

Comments

  1. CatnipFebruary 7, 2006 at 10:10 PM

    At the risk of being part of the pollyanna circle...you are right, of course.

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