hi back at you artie, you mentioned about ppl being aware of things like global warming, etc and acknowledging it and then not dong anything about it. i feel it is extreme apathy on the part of many ppl..like they figure i'm not gonna worry about that cause someone else will fix it...NOT. i see this in the way we allow our government to "run us" rather than holding them accountable for their actions...or being a good citizen and voting them out of office. i feel this is apathy again...there's a lot of apathy everywhere for everything unless it's gonna pay out to the person. the other aspect of the apathy comes from, if it doesn't apply to me, i don't care. it's kind of frightening actually. if ppl took on a small part of the responsibility for this world we live in, i think it would result in a better place, imho. this does touch on some of your points in your original post.
i'm glad you reconnected with an old friend. real friends are so important to us. no man is an island...i wish you good wishes on this reunion with your friend.
and thank you again for this thread. i feel we all benefitted from this discussion! i know i did. oh and thank you for the psychologist reference. i'm going to check it out.