"Anger, like false news, is cheap and easily digestible; it is the fast food of the indignant."

and

"Today, and especially today, as the threat of desensitization—and the accompanying seductions of detachment, outrage, revulsion, indignation, piety, and narcissism—looms over all our lives, we might need to ask ourselves the question that Chekhov asked himself in the spring of 1890: What will move me beyond this state of anesthesia? How will I counteract the lassitude that creeps over my soul?"

At first I was "withdrawing from engagement altogether," but now I find myself with more compassion and an urge to help myself and others move forward.