Averting Eyes

when did the “upstanding citizen” learn to avert their eyes when stepping over a homeless person on the way to their place of work? when were such people taught that the horrors of the world will never actually affect them & that the best that they can do is “live a good life” & “do their best not to hurt others,” as if this complete complacence did not balance itself upon the backs of those that have been cast out into the streets & stuffed down into the sewers (if not forced into one of society’s garbage cans: juvenile detention, prison, mental institutions, etc.)? when did such individuals learn how to cry on their hands & knees at the “appropriate time” for events & issues that could have been avoided had they themselves spent even an infinitesimal amount of their precious time to try & stop them? have such people ever been in a desperate situation? have they ever had to worry about anything & if they have, why do they not remember what it was like? why do such individuals think that it will never be so bad again?