I believe no one cares about you or me or anyone else. 

I know this is a pretty broad statement but I think it is true. 

I came upon this belief when my dad was doing a graduation speech for his old high school last summer, and he mentioned that most likely no one cares what you're doing. My cousin (who was graduating) had asked my dad to do the graduation speech. For a bit of context my dad’s family is from the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania. His town used to be slightly big up until the sixties and seventies when coal, iron, and steel jobs started to disappear (hence the mascot of his highschool, the ironmen). However for the most part now some of the only decent jobs in the area are at the local hospital, which serves most of north-central Pennsylvania.  

I started to actually think about this when we came back to Olney from my grandparents house.

I really reflected on the topic since I had all the time in the world on summer break. I really started to think about it once soccer id camps started. (an id camp is usually where a college can scout you from high school/middle school. They can be a day up to a week, usually the ones during the summer are longer, and typically you get assigned a team that you play with against other teams). As an up and coming eighth grader obviously I wasn’t given that much attention, even though I had three assists and a goal from four games. This really made me wonder, are people really more interested in your actual ability in a given topic, or your ability that they can use. 

I also thought about this again when school started. I really started to realize this was true when I realized that some friendships are for someone's personal gain. Whether that be social stature, safety, or any other number of reasons. But how do we do this, and how as social creatures do we let this happen.

My belief is that as time has gone on we have become more and more distant from each other. This is slowly degrading our “social creature” status, as we are becoming more and more dependent on technology to fill the void of real social interaction. In turn technology combined with distance has made us forget the consequences and importance of friendships. We have replaced the consequences of being a bad friend, and replaced them with the benefits of online rumors, and simple lies. We have also replaced our status of “social creature” with cynical creature. 

It is sad to see our own human instincts disappear, and be replaced with impulses generated by algorithms. We have been stripped down to me wanting to be more like you, you wanting to be more like them, and so one. Which brings us back to what I said in the beginning, “I believe no one cares about you or me or anyone else.”. This is all because all along no one cares little enough about themselves to care more about others. This was always true from the beginning of our species to now, it is just way more accessible to us now and when we first started as a species. Simply because we have lost our moral compasses, in the process of pushing for simplicity. I know I have bought into this system, and so have many others.