Fuel crisis has exposed our social inaction, selfishness

Our threshold for getting sufficiently angry at shoddy public service so as to cause us to do something about it must be really high. Contrary to common opinion, it appears as if it will take a lot to galvanise us into a protest of sorts.

Take the ongoing, drawn-out fuel crisis, for instance. We have a common pain-point that afflicts us, the ordinary citizens, and the so-called middle class, as painfully. Yet, we continue to behave as if all is well.