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Were people always so self indulgent? I really do wonder. Looking back, not too far, to people such as the "lost generation" and the impressionist painters that palled around together you can definitely see a clear trend of sitting around being pretentious and drinking. Which makes me think about the hippies, who maybe cared about something (the

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[soybie]

maybe you can think of it as evolutionary.
people used to have to focus on themselves for survival.
and then technology disconnected people and made them lose a sense of community and people have thus become more self-reliant.
survival+disconnection+self-reliance=self-absorbtion

if you're fed up, try doing some volunteer work. maybe you'll meet some nonshitty people.
or maybe just use becky's means of dealing with the reality of human suck-go work with dogs.

[anonymous]

you wonder if people only focus on themselves? you could look into how many people have blogs vs. how many of those people read other people's blogs. I think that the answer lies there. I used to have my links to things like my blog, myspace, livejournal and facebook under the heading "attention" if that helps your study. I had to delete it because I got sick of reading people self-promote themselves and try to outdo each other all the time. Status updates are a competition and if I didn't get responses I felt bad which I concluded was absolutely disgusting. In conclusion, I've made this comment post all about myself unintentionally, which I noticed when i skimmed for spelling errors, something that I felt would reflect poorly on me, but totally doesn't matter, which should also say something for your study.

[scent_memory]

signed, your friend, chris.