Here's how I see it: Numbness leads to selfishness. Selfishness leads to violence in the form of rampant disregard for the needs of anyone else (everyone on the highway needs to get somewhere, not just you). As a society we suffer from an inability to be patient and to tolerate frustration of any kind. Our focus on the self leads to a sense of entitlement and demands that someone else be responsible for the end results of our actions when things don't turn out the way we wanted them to. All of this is violence. All of it harms you and it harms me.
In future posts, I'll be talking about what to do about this, and how to cultivate change if you recognize yourself being caught in a cycle like this that you sincerely want to break.
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