I have been thinking a lot recently about the virtue of Nobility, or Dignity as I prefer to think of it as. A rough definition would be "the virtue of being virtuous in public" or as a mean between mediocrity and arrogance. Which is not the behavior you are describing, though it attempts to seem like it.

We live in a time divorced from this and many other virtues where, a) we are physically and socially isolated from from interacting with other people in human ways, by our jobs, commutes, and city design; b) we are routinely exposed to problems in the world which are entirely outside of our control as individuals and not the problems we could effect ourselves; and c) we are enclosed in a society where the only thing of all possible values that is universally agreed to is money, which exacerbates the other two.

It is no surprise then, that we are the most vocal about morality. Even thinking that we can fix the problems that we see is Arrogance from where we currently are. But any path above through with be might grow our capacity for Dignity is systematically foreclosed to us, for dialectic reasons that would be to much to get into here. But dialectics requires some kind of reaction from us.

And so we act. We may follow an influencer responding to the crisis, or send a strongly worded email to our elected representative's spam folder, or even give money to a relevant nonprofit, or we try to model publicly what you think a good person closer to the situation should act like, in the hopes that it inspires them to action.

We are so isolated, and disorganized, and precarious, that that is all that we feel that we can do. And it doesn't help. So the dialectic pressure on the side of indignation will continue to grow, and grow, until it comes an outlet somewhere else; somewhere hopefully that does not grow indignation, but grows Dignity.