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To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase. In the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us. 

Things spring upon us as do behavioral changes. We realize at some point and inadvertently that unbeknownst to us we have become immune to dehumanization. Is it really a strong word these days? An anachronism perhaps, buts surely not unruly rhetoric. Are we blind to what we see around us. 

He is a Marxizt, they say—and I could not care less. But really is this the extent of analyses. He is no Francis after —he is a Jesuit and will align more with Ignatius of Loyola. And really what would that be? To which I wonder are people simply keen on throwing a few pebbles in a can and listening to the emanating sounds, of course changing the angle of incidence! Do they realize that it is pure babble emanating from their mouths. And that they are enlightening no one other than trapping themselves. 

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/12/pope-francis-is-no-marxist-hes-a-marian.html