What depresses me most about the state of the world at present is that we've stopped caring to live up to the spirit of our ideals.
When we fail them and are pressed, we can rationalize our terrible actions based on technicalities - and large swaths of our culture have normalized doing this very thing.
It is my most sincere hope that we can walk our way back from this. I see some signs of this, but would prefer to see many more.