We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.
I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
More often than we realize, people see in us what we don't see in ourselves.
I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems.
The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.
Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.
Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.
Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.