I do not pretend to know fully understand how this came to be the case, or what to do about it, but I am increasingly of the opinion that the single most pressing problem of the American polity is that of amorality. Not immorality, amorality. It is not the case that we collectively believe what we are doing to be wrong—or believe it to be right; we simply do not care.

We are too eager to look for a way out of a hard situation, too eager to just do the easy thing, too happy to cast out of our minds what does not directly affect us (or what we want to believe will not directly affect us).