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It's better to be naive. I tend to believe that folks
- want to conserve energy
- care consumes a lot of energy
Therefore people will, on average, care to the extent caring helps them get other needs met. Absent status and power being tightly coupled to caring, I don't expect to see much of it.
Yes. But I don't think that is mutually exclusive with my naïveté. What I think that your belief means to me is that there is just a continuous loss of potential. Which leaves a lot to dream about. A lot of small changes, even suggestions, that may over time accumulate into something that is more beautiful than it was before.
I sometimes feel one-step-fwd-two-back weighing. But then I think about those I was able to inspire, or even nudge along in the slightest of ways. Just through a challenge that the status quo isn't static, or planting a little seed of what could be possible.
It doesn't always work. And I hate failure. But I guess that's also what keeps me on my toes. And not be decadent and lazy. Even all the while, I'm bleeding potential too. Always have been. But we try.
Hmm. I realized that I really wanna stay naive and believe that involuntary not caring is a function of either ignorance or sociopathy. Where the former can be cured by being exposed to a different world than the safe one (or the one that gaslit you) and the latter currently does not have a cure, but I want to also stay confident that humanity will find a way to fix this eventually.