Do you need a study to verify this:

WE   ARE   BECOMING   LESS   EMPATHETIC—-

Especially the  Y O U N G E R  among us.

There

It’s out.       .       .

Here’s the study:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-me-care

Seriously, are you shocked?

Did you need a study,

Research to verify what you see,

errrrrrrrrrrrr,

what you actually might be participating in every day?

I mean,

W H A T’  S    I N   I T   F O R    U S ,   right?

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh,

E      X      A      C      T      L      Y!

Now wait.       .        .

the study says that being

L   E   S   S        E   M   P   A   T   H   E   T   I   C

has been declining for over thirty years now.        .        .

But,   THAT   doesn’t make it any better or brighter does it?

You don’t have to turn on

A N I M A L    P L A N E T  

or   NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

to figure out that a bunch of Lions in Africa are going to go preying on the weak

N  O  T        S  U  R  P  R  I  S  I  N  G !

You won’t have to turn the station to find that the a pack of wolves do the same:

Dominate    the    Weak

N   O   T       S  U  R  P  R  I  S  I  N  G !

What   is   Surprising   is

T   H   A   T          W   E          A   R   E          N   O   T          A   N   I   M   A   L   S

but we, at times,

we act even less and sadly,

even more vicious.           .           .

In Michigan, a thief stole more than $600 from a Girl Scout who had worked doubly hard for her money.         .         .

she has Cerebral Palsy.       .        .

(I’ll just list one example)

School Shootings.        .        .

Bombings.          .          .

Stabbings.          .          .

U s—-

Lions in Africa?
Wolves in North America?

Thieves
Murderers
Molesters
Liars
Cheaters

Hardly, right?

Truthfully?

Sometimes    it’s    worse.

We say the right things
We look the right way
We show up in the right places
We smile in the correct way
We nod at the right times
We shed some tears

We fool ourselves and others.

The World is often running the other way.

It’d be easier to blend in,

to run with  t  h  e  m    .     .     .

there’s so  m a n y ,

no one would notice or at least be able to point us out

U N L E S S

we stand
we go the opposite way
we go upstream
we get mocked as weak
we become

L      E      S      S             to             B      E             M      O      R      E

We   BECOME   more compassionate
We   BECOME   more empathetic
We   BECOME   more sympathetic

W      E              B      E      C      O      M      E

The most Powerful among us aren’t the Lions,

the Wolves,

the Rich,

the Employed,

the Strong.    .    .

It’s the   W   E   A   K
who day after day are weak
and yet have survived those who one day become weak, too.

It’s often been said down through the ages of places where the weak and strong inhabit
that the   WEAK   are the   STRONG.         .         .

To shed     MORE      for     LESS     is the purest form of Compassion:

To Suffer

W I T H

is an un-matchable power the World knows not enough
and continually, desperately seeks

Where it is found
mocks the Pride of Lions in Africa

and more

The Africa that rears up in us,
tearing at our very selves to conquer
but never quite does…

The Ladle may be nearly empty.          .          .
but it’s far from being dry.            .            .

L  A  D  L  E         U  P

Study me    T   H   A   T,    Batman