Are We Proles?

To our family, we might be the most important thing they have, but to the government we're nothing but just one of the many plebiscites. It doesn't affect them our feelings towards anything, they just do what they feel is best, not best for us but for the most part what is best and most convenient for them. For example, when we hear about people on the news that have been in an accident, raped, killed, stabbed, etc, we might be shocked for the moment, but it doesn't affect us. We don't have any emotion towards it but worry about ourselves and the ones we love because it might happen to us. But other than that it's no big deal, the next day we won't even remember what we saw on the news. This is the same thing with the government, we're just one out of a whole bunch, they don't worry about us, they just worry about they're economical stability and reputation.