We can better analyze global carelessness through media exposure. The concepts of care and kindness we find so normal in our inner thoughts are performative ideals rewarded with prizes, trophies, recognition, and awards. When we perform kind acts we are labeled philanthropic; this entitlement carries over to career titles and social denominations. We often notice that philanthropists do not have a caring demeanor but are still revered socially.
Bill Gates is casually presented as a philanthropist and not an entrepreneur, demonstrating that his philanthropic recognition has overshadowed his actual career at Microsoft. This is akin to describing a practicing lawyer as a caring mother. We live in a world so devoid of care that when we come across acts of kindness, the observation is similar to smelling an exotic and almost extinct mesmerizing flower. We are encapsulated by its natural scarcity.
Our perspective of innate and natural kindness has morphed into an absurd delusion of kindness being reserved for charitable acts and rare accounts of heroic compassion. Charity is something we now associate with the noblest of wealthy humans instead of acts of kindness and generosity across social and economic divides.
