"People care too much about things" has long been the message of South Park
South Park routinely trips over itself as it sprints between "only an insufferable liberal would care about things" and "why are people so unfathomably cruel to each other?" Empathy isn't unknown to the writers. It just slips in and out of their memory whenever a punchline necessitates it.
ideals and aspirations for 15 year old edgy children and 50 year old edgy manchildren
The dirty truth of the human condition is how easy it can be for people to stop maturing (or outright regress) far earlier than we would like to acknowledge. And it certainly doesn't help when Americans are the most propagandized people on earth.
South Park routinely trips over itself as it sprints between "only an insufferable liberal would care about things" and "why are people so unfathomably cruel to each other?" Empathy isn't unknown to the writers. It just slips in and out of their memory whenever a punchline necessitates it.
The dirty truth of the human condition is how easy it can be for people to stop maturing (or outright regress) far earlier than we would like to acknowledge. And it certainly doesn't help when Americans are the most propagandized people on earth.