We will care about each other when we feel we are interdependent

Question from the Internet:

“What sociological perspective would support this quote? Why? “Almost half of the world's population lives on less than two dollars a day, yet even this statistic fails to capture the humiliation, powerless, and brutal hardship that is daily life.”

The truth is, we are so self-obsessed our perception of reality is so egocentric and subjective that we simply do not care.

The media could show us pictures and videos of children dying from hunger and inhumane conditions every day; unless we and our children have to endure such conditions, it does not touch us.

We exist locked into our own introverted bubbles, caring only about our own state and survival. Moreover, our human ego works in such a way that when we survive and succeed at the expense of others we receive even greater joy from our gain.

Nothing will change until we recognize and start to “viscerally” feel that those “others’ are actually our own, integral parts we cannot exist without.

Only when — with the help of a special, purposeful and practical method — we start to tangibly and irrevocably feel how interdependent we are, how much we are all but single cells of the same living organism — only then will we care for one another and take on our absolute, 100% mutual responsibility towards each other.