Some higher up (manager of my manager) mentions visiting some part of the U.S. where Native Americans still lived—I think near the Death Valley. Not in their usual wild environments of course, hence why people like her could meet them. She mentioned how she found it shocking how sad the Natives looked, and she didn't seem to understand why.
I guess it is not too surprising that upper-middle class people within our glorious "civilized" world do not understand why others find it so soulless, but it is despairing that those people hold so much power. I have often found that by far the hardest thing within the modern world isn't the actual set of tasks and problems that it requires from you, but instead the sheer difficulty of caring enough to get it done, when your entire body couldn't care less and wants to go out and be free.
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2024-07-22