I understand what you are saying, its just frustrating seeing whats going on there. It seems like no one is doing anything about it. They are living in a survival of the fittest situation at the moment, and in those situations, unfortunately, all bets are off when it comes to living or dying.
Bring up a couple of generations under socialism and all the "gumption" is bred out of them. They are well trained to stay in line and wait for "somebody else" to act, even while they huddle, starve and complain.
In places where there is no nanny state (such as America used to be) the people get up from an event like this, dust themselves off, and come back stronger than ever.