The more people there are in a place, the more people are apathetic to those around them except the ones they care about. Think of a city as an industrial zoo of humans. We have our own domain where we sleep which we have to pay for so they make us work, hence to keep us all busy and in line. The news just helps out by desensitizing us to the point where when we see someone get run over, we're more apt to take a picture rather than call 911. Be honest, do you really care about the people you don't know around you? I try to at least give everyone around me the respect they deserve with the frame of mind to live and let live until they get into my face and disrespect that notion. The thing is, I can't expect people to live their life like I do and they all have their own thoughts of what a perfect world would be.
Now I'm jumping to a new subject concerning technology and the comforts that it brings to us as well as the issue of overpopulation, obesity, vanity (models who get airbrushed by a computer later or by their plastic surgeon), and laziness. I just feel that we really need to find another livable planet or moon that we can get to pretty soon here or there's going to be mass hysteria and chaos when we're fighting for the air that we breathe right now that we really don't give a second thought to. Then again, we're drifting further away from the sun as the moon that keeps us on our tilt to give us our seasons drifts further away from us as well and we have a whole bunch of idiot fanatics with weaponry that has potential to rid the planet that we walk on while the Earth tries to get rid of the pestilence of humans that devours its surface and within its crust of resources with all of its immense powers... oh... I'm just gonna go and get stoned on these thoughts...