It's been a painful realization for those of us who grew up idealistic, taught in school that we, "the good guys", would rise up and together fight injustice,

It's been a painful realization for those of us who grew up idealistic, taught in school that we, "the good guys", would rise up and together fight injustice, inequities and human right violations together the way "we" have in WW2. Turns out that genocides, massacres, concentration camps, slavery and co are something that the West will gladly overlook because ultimately everybody's got a mortgage to pay, and the tedious moral grandstanding is nothing but empty PR. Nobody gives a shit, you just can't say that out loud. You need to make sure to Tweet your support for the right cause, and then go back to climbing your local power ladder of choice 30 seconds after hitting post. I realize this sounds cynical, but I don't think there's much evidence to support a more optimistic outlook, at least as far as geopolitics go.