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Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (Recorded at Live 8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_4uEaZQ2Kg

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About 15 years ago, I saw on the news in Europe that 8 students had been shot at some random high school in a random US state.

Having been conditioned by my environment to perceive such events as important, I turned to my friend and said “Man, 8 students were shot at a high school in the States!”

He asked me “What am I supposed to do with that information?” That response changed my life.

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>“What am I supposed to do with that information?”

...Feel some sorrow? Think a bit about what could cause such a thing? Because one day, it may happen at your kid's school... And it may be your own kid.

An absence of both empathy and curiosity aren't exactly a response to be proud of. An unconscious life. The kind that leads to, one day, spouting the standard response: "I never imagined it could happen to me".

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How did it change your life?
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