in a high-trust society the very first person to walk up would free the cat. in modern america, while nobody would actually free the cat, everyone would deride and attack the person to put the cat in the jar. this is a morally troubling decline. the message of the cat in the jar is that you, we, i, am the cat in the jar. we are cut off from human charity, only exposed to criticism, and isolated by our screens and the walls we erect around each other.
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