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You are right about society right now, its not a good place, sorry but no matter the progress we have made as a intellectual species, our emotional evolution is sorely lacking. Social medias explosion has taught us all just how messed up our people are in this world.
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I think it has to do with the increasingly autonomous nature of human beings. Does something like social media demonstrate how messed up people are, or does it make people more messed up than they already were.
In regards to emotions, we evolved as social animals with relational needs that can only be expressed through friendship, love, and family. These needs are strengthened through dignity, love, and charity. Speaking as a Christian, I always emphasize the irreplaceable dignity and worth of every human, further emphasized by the fact that we are all equally creatures.
The difference now between the obese, and the relatively not obese is another demonstration of an increasing focus on strong versus weak relations. Perhaps, best explained by Rousseau's concept of amour propre, a sense of self-worth devised by one's careful calculation of one's worth relative to other's unworth.