Colin Wilson Analysis

I think you could interpret what Colin Wilson said many different ways. In our society today it is almost survival of the fittest. We worry about ourselves and don’t give a second thought about anyone else. This goes from small acts to larger things. How often do we see someone hold the door open for someone, or help some random person help them? When was the last time you saw someone drop their books in school and someone knelt down and helped pick up their stuff? These small acts have almost disappeared. We always see these things on the new of someone helping a homeless man or rescuing a cat out of a tree and the news makes these people out to be heroes. Like they could be a part of the Avengers. I think that what Colin Wilson is saying is these small acts simple don’t exists; for two reasons, one its “uncool” or weird to do these things for people and two we hear about all these kidnappings and rapings and think that’s all people are going to do if they ask if they can help. The best example I can give of this is in a big city. People are raped and mugged every day and no one says anything or does anything. We don’t have to worry about this in …show more content…
Okay not really but figuratively. We see these things on the news of a house burning down killing a whole family or someone killing a family and killing themselves and we do nothing. Okay we say “How sad…” Then when we hear of someone beating a dog or something to do with animals people are in an uproar. Going on strikes and freaking out. I love animals just as much as the next person but really…. There are people kidnapping and selling women for sex slaves and we just let this happen. Do we really care more about animals than human beings? We test experiments on animals for crying out loud! But heaven forbid we do anything to help those poor kids and women being kidnapped and