Voyage in Noise: Warren Ellis and the Demise of Western Civilization Highlight

Of course, this is a very real-world concern: some poor neighborhoods in the United States, currently the richest and most powerful nation in the world, have life expectancies and infant mortality rates rivaling third-world nations. There’s no reason this has to be so, except that we wish it to be so – or simply don’t care. If the real horror is what humans do to each other, the real tragedy is that enough of us have “give[n] up and let it happen.”