People Who "Don't Care"

Dear Editor,
    I have been waiting on a follow-up story about the Austin Regional Intelligence Center (ARIC) since it was promised in the original piece weeks ago [“Austin Regional Intelligence Center's Secret Informants Show How Profiling Works,” News, Aug. 7]. Instead I was treated to a four-page profile of a horrendous bar owner in the latest issue.
    At least the story glimpses the bigger problem brewing beneath the city's foundations. People's propensity to “not care” when it comes to issues of morality will quickly mutate from a ponderous conundrum to a creature that will suck the soul out of Austin.
    As long as the city continues to prioritize building million dollar condo complexes and corporate offices, it will continue to attract the likes of people who “don't care” and offer up their morality to the highest bidder. The kind of people who see the Adam Scott character from Step Brothers as a goal marker instead of a caricature to be pitied. Look at all the Range Rovers congesting the city already! That type of growth is no growth at all.
    Austin was supposed to be different; be better. The undertones of this article are just further confirmation of what many have already realized: The promise was just a mirage.
    I'll end with a sad, painfully true allegory: Witness the well-to-do young woman in active wear take in the Garrett Foster memorial and ask what it was for. When told, she responded, “Oh yeah....I THINK I heard about that.”
    Some growth is no growth at all.
    As for the ARIC, I was probably wrong in assuming anyone else cared.