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riotheclownI think it is an upside down world where extreme poverty is often treated like a mental illness and yet extreme wealth involves a pathological disregard for the suffering of others and is thought of as something to admire.
What if lack of compassion was considered a mental illness more serious than schizophrenia and observable de-compassion would send out alarms throughout the society and there would be an immediate response? Of course the response would be the interesting part. A social/science fiction story?
Would they be lobotomized, drugged? Would they be given "treatments" or spend years in inadequately funded institutions until (for cost reasons) they are ejected on to the street?
Naw, that wouldn't happen in a compassionate society.
As for the sort of society we have now:
So long as we can keep pumping imaginary gains in to the arteries of those EXTREMELY WEALTHY PEOPLE and offer them treats like tax havens and powers like presidencies, we (some of us) can enjoy the trickle down imaginary benefits of living in a fluffy void of delusion, slurping down entertainments that shrink our brains and make us think we know stuff.
Wait? Which was the idea for a horror story?
What if lack of compassion was considered a mental illness more serious than schizophrenia and observable de-compassion would send out alarms throughout the society and there would be an immediate response? Of course the response would be the interesting part. A social/science fiction story?
Would they be lobotomized, drugged? Would they be given "treatments" or spend years in inadequately funded institutions until (for cost reasons) they are ejected on to the street?
Naw, that wouldn't happen in a compassionate society.
As for the sort of society we have now:
So long as we can keep pumping imaginary gains in to the arteries of those EXTREMELY WEALTHY PEOPLE and offer them treats like tax havens and powers like presidencies, we (some of us) can enjoy the trickle down imaginary benefits of living in a fluffy void of delusion, slurping down entertainments that shrink our brains and make us think we know stuff.
Wait? Which was the idea for a horror story?
