Care in the World

Things that needs saving: the planet, the Syrians, the Palestinians, the ABC, old buildings, CSIRO, Australian innovation, fast dogs, slow reptiles, little frogs, the barrier reef, the whales, flatheads, mullets, and even sharks.

Do people really care about these things? I don’t think so.

My close observation would suggest that people mostly care about caring about these things.

And that is something quite different altogether.

The give away is a total absence of objectivity, humour or patience.

Conversely when someone really cares about something, as opposed to just caring about caring about it, they tend to be, for example, quite objective about the subject because that is a required skill for the educatation of others on the matter.