I shall continue to tilt at my windmills

but in too many of my peers, the following is an echo of truth:

..."is one form of our general willingness to disregard the welfare of society for personal gain. We can trace this disregard through all society... This spirit feeds on itself, because the more we see that other people will not help us, the more it seems futile to help them. Thus society decays into a jungle."
-Richard Stallman, "Why Software Should be Free"