No, we really aren't. It's just that thanks to the internet the small bunch of rabble rousing complainers who can't stick to minding their own business that every society throughout history has had have gotten a megaphone. And the rest of us nod along before getting on with our lives as usual as we always have historically.
The reality is that most people don't actually care about bad stuff, no matter how bad it is unless it's happening to them or someone or something they care about. We like to think we care because it makes us feel better. But in reality we really, really don't.
I mean, look at us right now. Here we are getting deeply emotional about the plight of fictional elves in a game and expressing that using computers and phones built from parts allegedly constructed in sweatshop factories barely a step up from slave labor in a totalitarian dictatorship whose policies allegedly include genocide against parts of its population. And we do it while most likely sitting on chairs, wearing clothes and using an air conditioner all built there as well.
And as I type it I honestly can say that I still care more about the elves. Because they are something I have gotten emotionally invested in where as those people over there are an abstract problem. And looking deep down you'll have to agree. Because if you didn't agree you'd have dropped your PC, taken off your clothes and stopped using all the goods that make your life nice just to make a political point. Which none of us ever will for reasons which are plainly obvious.
Reality is that human beings are wired to only act in such extreme ways when emotionally invested into something. Everything else we just rationalize away. Which is how institutions like slavery thrive and persist.
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