On my two month road trip I met a surprising amount of people and heard a lot of stories, but often they'd have moments where they constantly had to affirm that they didn't have feelings, that they didn't care.
"I Don't Care" has to be one of the most toxic phrases against Introspection, a way to bury their feelings instead of growing to understand them, and often when I would explain why caring is harder to do that'd be like a lockpick for a bunch of buried shit they felt like they couldn't talk about with their friends. Groupthink keeps the notion alive, even with phrases like "I was just kidding" when it gets too personal to essentially say "We shouldn't care".
What makes it so hard for people to care about stuff these days, or at least what makes it so difficult for them to admit to themselves? Why is caring seen as weakness?