@sim The world impoverishes itself with political and military endeavours that go nowheres, but they make us feel good.  I feel that we as a people or species or whatever the proper collective noun is these days have grown to be so needful of our catharsis that we are losing our ability to skeptically question others or ourselves.  We speak of "safe spaces" in enthusiastic tones, forever seeking a place where we do not have to cope with a world we have not been given the tools to deal with, because collectively, we have refused to take responsibility for educating ourselves on the way in which it actually works.