It used to be that a group would have to be African before the west could successfully ignore preventable mass suffering and death over political boundaries and stuff. Nowadays it's progressed so that the poor of the politically uncertain Middle East have found a place on the scale forgettability in line with Rwandans or Biafrans.
Everyone's expendable. Global climate change has "climate changed" the definitions and perceptions. Any world can be "Third World" now. The miracle of artificial Intelligence and its vanguard, "Conservative Thinking", has inured westerners from unendurable empathy or responsibility. There's no shock reaction in stringing razor wire to "snare and drown" Rio Grande wading infants. Boats of desperation by the thousands, carrying Africans fleeing death and terror at home have, for years, drowned and starved crossing the Mediterranean. It's no longer even a blip on the human atrocity scope.
Who'll be up next? Why, funny you should ask. Ukrainians, Poles and Hungarian dissidents, Russian deserters and Latvian organic farmers are already on the lists along with pregnant Texan and Arizonan rape victims. There's misery enough for all and the mean planetary temperature has just gotten started into the "sorry humans, there's no turning back from here" zone.
If it's any consolation, the laws of physics, which determine the existence of the planet we ride in its trajectory as a universal expansion of matter (or is it a contraction? the jury's out on that sometimes) fraught with gravitational interactions for the last 14 billion years (or twice that according to the latest confusion), are still functioning perfectly, if not mysteriously. As soon as we figure out what time has to do with anything we'll have a scheduling APP available so we can all follow along in the comfort of home or whatever craft we're escaping on.
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