The Nefarious Influence of the Big City

I suffer from an increased indifference to people. This especially results in ignoring the very existence of all the charity workers that try to chat you up on the streets. I do it and I find myself shocked at my own behaviour: it is one of the rudest things you can possibly do to an individual in Western society. How wrong is this from a left-wing/socialist perspective? Am I not suppossed to care about people, and shouldn't I therefore be the most generous of persons? Still I loathe the idea of confronting those people on the street who beg for charity and do the worst symbolic violence to them, by not even reacting to their calls. Charity organisations pick up where the State fails. And England has a lot of charity. I am in a grim mood (as noted), but tomorrow I am coming home for Sinterklaas! Hossana!