Every friend, acquaintance, and stranger I bring up the the subject to of the escalating conflict between US/NATO/Ukraine and Russia/its allies is either mum about it, silently on edge, or in flat out denial.
That level of passivity in response to what the world’s governments presently consider a very serious threat is a sign of the times. Hedonism has blinded us to the harsh realities of history.
We do not care about what led up to WWI, the Great Depression, nor WWII. We are too busy kicked back in our lazy boy recliners letting cable TV flow all over us every night while we slip into a semi-comatose state of oblivion.
When the food supply chain should break down or the nukes should start landing on our soil (or for that matter being deployed in Europe), psychologically speaking we are Toast. Hard times are ahead it seems.