It's horrifying because it's real

Here, in our neoliberal late-2020s, where no help is coming from our heads of state and the internet feels less like an anarchist tool and more like a fascist neurotoxin, we might look to the radical potential of empathy, solidarity, and the collective fightback in the flesh, on the ground. We might do well to disregard indignant cultural posturing, and fix our critical faculties on the world before us. As individuals; as a swarm. Using our leaders as tools, and not the reverse.