Far more important than justice and equality is the desire for self-preservation and advancement. To buck the system means to risk defeat. Man no longer seems concerned with humanitarian issues. If they are, it is on an entirely abstract scale. When one's material posessions are called into question, it seems that everyone is willing to back down.
People are so weak and easy to control.
It's so easy to keep everybody happy in this country. Keep the beer, the gas, the junk food and the T.V. cheap and accessible, and everything's fine. The government no longer has to censor anything. The people do it for them. Here, at college, I have an underground newspaper.