RE: Why do so few seem to really genuinely care about the state of the world?
I would like to challenge this thought a little. Hopefully you are up for it.
I agree that things arent great in the world and that people do not care about other humans, animals and/or the environment. I think that there is a lot of evidence that supports that viewpoint. However, the view that the world has gone to shit and people are horrible (paraphrasing/my words) is an overgeneralization that is highly influenced by the information that the person consumes and bases there thoughts on. For instance there is a lot of evidence that supports that the world is shit and people dont care AND there is also a lot of evidence that contradicts it and suggests the opposite. There are a lot of examples of people doing good things to each other and the world as well. So the overall viewpoint that we hold is very much influenced by what information we consume.
There is an idea that people (all people) regularly make "cognitive distortions" that influence our way of thinking. I'm interested in what you think of this idea so I've attached an image of some of the most common ones. I myself recognize that I tend to do some of these regularly so it can be an interesting way of challenging our own thoughts.
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Sure I'm up for it. Though I've been responding to messages almost all day and my dinners almost ready so it's going to be sort of brief.
I recognize that there are many good people doing good things I wasn't denying that and have featured quite a few clips of people doing good things in the movies I've worked on. However it's just sort of a sheer scale sort of thing and that that bad largely outweighs the good. Especially when it comes to negligence and apathy and people not doing anything to try to stop the mass murderous governments or incredible destruction to nature and animals. It's just so overwhelmingly out of balance that it's discouraging and might lead to our species extinction, some scientists think it's too late already and we have less than 10 years before our species is done for.
If things were the other direction and the world was more full of good people who cared a lot and were trying to help, things wouldn't be so bad in my opinion. It takes a majority to either be contributing or apathetic to allow it to get this bad. I think if the majority were actively trying to make the world better, it would be better. So I don't feel like my point of view is warped, I think I'm basing it largely off of what the state of the world is and what the evidence shows as opposed to my personal bias.
Interesting picture though I feel like I was pretty clear with my words and have spoken about this a lot in the past and taken criticism for it and have refined my language and made numerous movies on the subject so.. As much as I wish I was just blowing things out of proportion.. It's probably even much worse than I've been suggesting, it's probably worse than I can even humanly imagine unfortunately.. Hopefully it's not too late, I still have hope in humanity, though.. Many other people including scientists have lost hope. Many thing we are already dead as a species and we don't even realize it yet.