Humanity
Another shooting in America, more children and their teachers killed in a senseless massacre of the innocents. There will be the usual wave of sympathy, calls for gun reform, candles lit. But soon enough, like all the previous shootings, it will be forgotten. Nothing will change, nothing will be learned. And in a few years time it will happen again.
Despite the trappings of modernity and civil society, humanity remains as barbaric and destructive as it ever was. Perhaps it would have been better if humanity had been wiped out by the pandemic.