| I think the problem is that we are too social. It turns my stomach when I see how many people remain on cell phones in grocery stores, on lines all over town, outside of classes at school, for a shitty little 5 minute break during class, etc.
What the fuck are these people talking about?! I think people are too social, too reliant on everyone else's opinion and everyone else's intervention. Maybe you just live in a dreary town, because on all the buses I've been on, people start up conversations left and right. The same is true of trains; when people ignore each other, I notice, its usually because of the presence of someone that is intimidating, like a gang of very loud and rude, annoying black guys. People do not want to call attention to themselves out of fear.
But whenever everyone on the bus or train is nonthreatening, interaction is inevitable.
"Die! Fall upon your sword. Fall upon your knee.
Die like your Son, nailed to his Tree.
Die by my hand. Die in my heart,
plucked from the Ice;
forever cold." |