buzzkillscg asked: The majority of people are centric thinkers. It's only important enough to say something about it if it affects them directly. I have to actively work against that mentality, but I can't honestly say I'm always successful.

Yeah I notice it a lot I’ve done it also but what I don’t understand is the minds of people that care so much about strange things like Steve jobs/apple. It’s like driving down the street on Thanksgiving night seeing lines of people outside of stores like Best Buy 10 hrs before it even opens. I always have the urge to just walk past them shaking my head. I feel like a capitalist country breeds materialistic people. People tend to care less about big issues, or even notice big issues but they are very in touch with everything else. It’s like if I wanted to get people to help marching in Atl for minority/African American/feminist/everyone’s Issues it would be a lot harder to get a following than it would be for apple to get huge groups of people waiting outside their stores for a new phone when the only difference from the old one is (for example) the color.

The importance to some people about certain things shows even through the computer through how many notes something meaningless or popular can get, but something of actual substance makes people uncomfortable and gets avoided or ridiculed by most.