Indifference

(Roughly) “I suppose that the only time in which the majority of people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”

This is an excellent summation of life in America.  In particular, there is an entire political party whose platform is: we are completely indifferent to others’ suffering.  We know people are hungry, uneducated, dying of treatable diseases, and in many cases, homeless.  We know that our children and grandchildren will be living on a planet that has been rendered nearly uninhabitable by global warming and other forms of environmental collapse. But, read our lips, we couldn’t care less.