How does one engage with the world?

 I really do try to engage with the world. But it feels like salt in a coffee cup.

Today, it was a post that supported a market that is based on encroachment. Friends who will support eco friendly wood shavings board on Facebook but ask for teak and sal for their own homes. Teak and Sal only grows on the mountains. The same friends will also go to the mountains and complain about deforestation.

They complain about poaching but buy hide purses from outside India.

The poacher's poverty is not poverty, but the encroacher's poverty is poverty.

They will post sexist jokes but will be offended if someone calls this out. OR, worse still (I do this) if someone makes reverse memes, they will be suitably offended.

What does one do with such mind-numbing hypocrisy? How does one engage with such a world?

I am a deep sea fish, i cannot live on the surface. It gets too hot and too cold too soon. It depends on the winds too much. It is affected by the current tide and gets muddy with a little rain. Deep down there, we have to trust each other. We have only each other. No tides come to change the mood. No winds and rains muddy the waters. The heat and cold is ours, and for a long time. We know there is noplace else to go. Just us. Just this. We are creatures of the long term.