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It seems like as time goes on, people become more apathetic. This is not how I envisioned future humans to be, but tht's probably becaseu of watching Star Trek when I was young.
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The world in the previous decades had more social and professional justice and sense of good overall. People could have a stable life looking forward for the future.
In today's world, people have to fight hard just to stay afloat and social and professional injustice is ubiquitous. The crooked politicians are hostile to the people who elected them and do not represent them, but instead represent the elites financial interests. People see these criminals not only go unpunished but, instead, rewarded for their criminal actions with luxury retirements and millionaire off shore accounts. These days, banks and financial institutions sell out entire countries and their population for their own profit creating widespread misery. Money is above everything. it buys everything and everyone and always has the final word. Many people don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. Injustice and low ethics, as a whole, became ubiquitous. Even as one turns on the TV, one can't almost (or not at all) see or hear about these major problems being discussed (widespread financial corruption and its toll on entire countries and societies, people's lives) above everything what one sees an obvious corrupted stupefying propaganda machine that completely ignores the "elephant in the room" and ethical values, in general, instead, promoting a numb acceptance of these injustices as an unavoidable fact of life. Movies and tv-series are completely devoid of any intellectual content that would make you think and just aim for instant gratification and relief from the ugly reality with a standardized formula of permanently fixed brain numbing content.
All these, I think, contribute to this apathetic state of mind.
The world in the previous decades had more social and professional justice and sense of good overall. People could have a stable life looking forward for the future.
In today's world, people have to fight hard just to stay afloat and social and professional injustice is ubiquitous. The crooked politicians are hostile to the people who elected them and do not represent them, but instead represent the elites financial interests. People see these criminals not only go unpunished but, instead, rewarded for their criminal actions with luxury retirements and millionaire off shore accounts. These days, banks and financial institutions sell out entire countries and their population for their own profit creating widespread misery. Money is above everything. it buys everything and everyone and always has the final word. Many people don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. Injustice and low ethics, as a whole, became ubiquitous. Even as one turns on the TV, one can't almost (or not at all) see or hear about these major problems being discussed (widespread financial corruption and its toll on entire countries and societies, people's lives) above everything what one sees an obvious corrupted stupefying propaganda machine that completely ignores the "elephant in the room" and ethical values, in general, instead, promoting a numb acceptance of these injustices as an unavoidable fact of life. Movies and tv-series are completely devoid of any intellectual content that would make you think and just aim for instant gratification and relief from the ugly reality with a standardized formula of permanently fixed brain numbing content.
All these, I think, contribute to this apathetic state of mind.
What was your most embarrassing moment? A friend of mine in college once put his laundry basket on the top of ?
Q. his car and then forgot about it as he drove off. He spent an hour picking up underwear and t-shirts from where he left the parking lot.
Answer
That'd be my first overseas gig as a journalist. I was a motoring journo, and Volkswagen took us all, first class to Vienna for the launch of their new car. Insane luxury, designer gifts, food to kill for, all that stuff. They gave us a very very rich lunch, then toook us to a hisotic old building to hold their major European press conference. I was still wet behind the ears, and was feeling overwhelmed by the company of the older, more professional journos. I stuck a hand in the air during the question time and the microphone came back to me. Eyes turned to me - this was a hall full of journalists, it's inevitable. You had to announce your name and publication first, and I did, feeling drunk with the exhileration. I was young and new and about to make my debut among the big boys.
"And what's your question?" asked the CEO of Volkswagen Europe.
I opened my mouth.
Thing is...I wasn't used to such rich food, I was a poor working class Welsh boy. And as I stood there, microphone in hand, bigwigs from Volkswagen and the grandees of my profession watching, the lunch came back to me. Instead of my devastatingly intelligent question, what came leaping up my throat was the biggest burp of my entire life. The microphone took it and slammed it forward, backward, to every wall and back....It almost parted people's hair.
Then came the silence. The silence that followed in the wake of the noise, and turned my blood to ice. There was an occasional cough and the shuffling irritation of professional journalists. The question had fled from my brain in the mortification of the moment. Then
"Thank you," said the CEO sternly, and the microphone was snatched from my hand, and the moment moved on, and I had to slide slowly back to my seat...
That'd be my first overseas gig as a journalist. I was a motoring journo, and Volkswagen took us all, first class to Vienna for the launch of their new car. Insane luxury, designer gifts, food to kill for, all that stuff. They gave us a very very rich lunch, then toook us to a hisotic old building to hold their major European press conference. I was still wet behind the ears, and was feeling overwhelmed by the company of the older, more professional journos. I stuck a hand in the air during the question time and the microphone came back to me. Eyes turned to me - this was a hall full of journalists, it's inevitable. You had to announce your name and publication first, and I did, feeling drunk with the exhileration. I was young and new and about to make my debut among the big boys.
"And what's your question?" asked the CEO of Volkswagen Europe.
I opened my mouth.
Thing is...I wasn't used to such rich food, I was a poor working class Welsh boy. And as I stood there, microphone in hand, bigwigs from Volkswagen and the grandees of my profession watching, the lunch came back to me. Instead of my devastatingly intelligent question, what came leaping up my throat was the biggest burp of my entire life. The microphone took it and slammed it forward, backward, to every wall and back....It almost parted people's hair.
Then came the silence. The silence that followed in the wake of the noise, and turned my blood to ice. There was an occasional cough and the shuffling irritation of professional journalists. The question had fled from my brain in the mortification of the moment. Then
"Thank you," said the CEO sternly, and the microphone was snatched from my hand, and the moment moved on, and I had to slide slowly back to my seat...
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