2006-09-21 13:59:43 · 8 answers · asked by Lisa 6 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
I don't know, but it's annoying. Some of it can be attributed to a steady diet of shallow pop culture. When we care more about a healthy celebrity baby than an unknown one who's starving to death, there's a problem.
2006-09-21 14:05:31 · answer #1 · answered by rockdahouse85 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lisa, what leads you to believe that people today are any more shallow than people some time in the past. I'm crowding 60, and I promise, the shallow people are in no greater numbers nor are they shallow to a greater degree than they were in the 1960s.
2006-09-21 23:37:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some of us have tried being deeply caring towards another. We have tried to wear our hearts on our sleeves. And some of us have bent over backwards to be everything a potential significant other would want us to be. And more often than not, it failed. Miserably. We got the old "let's be friends", or "I'm not over my old boyfriend, yet" (the psycho, stalker, abusive one she was complaining about a day earlier).
Some of us (myself included) decided "I'm not getting anything by being nice or supportive or tender, so maybe I'll just treat everybody like they are my close friend. Flatulence jokes, profanity, and vocal exclamations at the size of a cute girls' breasts. Hell, at least I'm having more fun this way."
But then, after a bit, we realize that part of us did enjoy being tender and caring and concerned. And even if nobody ever gave us a second glance, we were at least being honest. We at least realized that relationships (of all kinds) are often shallow and selfish. But sometimes, they can be beautiful and meaningful as well. So we wait for that one to come along, and disregard the rest. I probably didn't answer your question, but it felt good nonetheless.
2006-09-21 21:09:05 · answer #3 · answered by atomicfrog81 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is the way our society has gone. We care less for ourselves and each other, and more for the possessions we crave. We have lost our way. In the old days (way way back) their was respect for yourself, and each other. Elders with wisdom were listened too, now we go to the Internet and listen to people we don't even know, or watch television for that quick fix on the 30 min medical show. We have lost how to tell someone we care about how much they mean to us and embrace them in a non threatening way. We have lost the desire to listen to nature, to the individual bird calling. Instead we just hear the flock. We don't honestly give thanks anymore, rather just go through the motions. We do not take accountability for our actions. Basically we have just lost the way and don't care about anything cause there will be a quick fix somewhere. Please, go outside. Feel the breeze on your skin. embrace it. Listen to the animals. Take the time to tell someone you care about that you do, and mean it. Respect yourself, others and the world around you. We are all related in one way or another.
2006-09-21 22:30:01 · answer #4 · answered by Deejay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause with our current pop culture, you don't have to care about anything real, politics, philosophy, true love, exspressing and stayign true to yourself, are now ignored, because we have big, shiny distractiosn everywhere.
2006-09-21 21:02:28 · answer #5 · answered by locomonohijo 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lack of a good upbringing!
2006-09-21 21:07:10 · answer #6 · answered by scott m 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because of MTV and TRL show!
2006-09-21 21:07:43 · answer #7 · answered by gobervart 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
great question... they speak their mind... their entire mind.... and really don't know better i guess.
2006-09-21 21:02:09 · answer #8 · answered by italianchic1606 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋