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It is simple, you can't care about everything. Pick your battles. The burden of the world is not fit for one person to carry. Besides, once you feel outraged, what happens ? Nothing. Then you get desensitized. It's a survival mechanism to stay sane in a world where we have less and less power to handle more and more problems.
People get outraged and go out to protest. Why is this kind of defeatism bs upvoted? You live way to privileged to even think about being desensitized, while the people in some parts of the world even struggle to survive.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Ah yes, privilege...tell me about it. Everyone is against it but we all strive to achieve it. What hypocrisy.
It's rich of you to talk so high and mighty, but what has your protest done so far ? People who can really make a change don't care and laugh amused while you waste your days in the street.
If people back in the french revolution only protested we'd still be starving and working the fields. Thankfully for us they didn't really have any other option back then.
The real change is not from outrage and protest, it's from a demonstration of force. But that shit takes organization and motivation and energy and time, and. Nobody has any of that.
Knowledge is burden, and you're trying to convince me to know more and torture myself so you don't feel so bad about knowing too much. It has nothing to do with helping others.