We've Lost Our Humanity

 We've Lost Our Humanity And It's Killing Us

In Ukraine, families are torn apart by a war that drags on with no end in sight. In Sudan, civilians flee their homes under gunfire. In Gaza, children die buried beneath rubble, some before they even learn to walk. In Florida, immigrant children are locked away in detention camps we pretend not to see.

These are not just political problems. These are moral failures. And they reflect something deeper and darker: we’ve lost our sense of empathy. We’ve stopped caring. Or maybe worse, we’ve trained ourselves not to.

We are desensitized. We scroll through suffering like it’s content. Outrage has a 24-hour shelf life, and then we move on to the next horror. We shake our heads, maybe share a post, and go back to brunch.

Meanwhile, fascism is rising, not just in some distant corner of the world, but right here, right now. It’s creeping into parliaments and school boards, into policies and propaganda. And it thrives on exactly this: apathy, distraction, and silence. This is not normal. It cannot become normal.

We need to say it out loud: locking children in cages is inhumane. Dropping bombs on neighborhoods is not “self-defense.” Ignoring genocide because it’s politically inconvenient is cowardice. And pretending it’s not our problem is complicity.

But this isn’t a message of hopelessness. It’s a wake-up call. Because what the world needs now is not more cynicism or more analysis. It needs more compassion. More kindness. More people who are willing to care even when it hurts, even when it’s easier not to. Empathy is not weakness. It is resistance. In a world that’s trying to numb us, to desensitize us, choosing to care is an act of rebellion.

It starts with how we talk. How we treat each other. How we raise our kids. How we vote. What we amplify. What we stay silent about. It starts in our homes and in our feeds and in our hearts. No one of us can fix everything. But every one of us can refuse to be part of the problem. We can speak up. Show up. Stand beside the vulnerable instead of looking away.

We can be better. We have to be better.

Because if we don’t reclaim our humanity now, we may lose it for good.