“ It is less, I think, complacency than it is a fear of making things worse. The fear of making things worse (or of change per se) holds things in place until things get bad enough that people are willing to take the chance.”

This is a moment among many when I feel that international examples of violence recapitulates domestic violence in families. (I probably have that inverted; domestic violence recapitulates international violence). The same psychological forces are in play.