One would think that finally, this was a sufficiently sharp fetch upside the head to wake up even the sheeple.
Small enough number that people can grasp the horror, but not so large as to become “just a statistic”.
People flock to see something like “The Texas Chainsaw Murders” or “Silence of the Lambs”, but once the gore and slaughter disappears from the screen, they simply revert to the old framework of thinking, that they are invulnerable, and it is all fiction anyway.
But this was real people and it was happening in real time.
How much pain must there be before the natural somnolence is finally shaken off and some degree of self-preservation kicks in?
Unfortunately we live in an age of atheism, narcissism and ego, in which few individuals recognize anything larger than self; if it did not effect them personally, it may as well have been a movie or video game. The plight of others a continent away must not interfere with updating one's facebook status or catching the latest episode of the latest reality TV series.