"The Constant Gardener" excerpt

"This is the Pharisaic life we lead -- a continent lies dying at our door, and here we stand or kneel drinking coffee off a silver tray while just down the road children starve, the sick die, and crooked politicians bankrupt the nation that was tricked into electing them."

- The Constant Gardener

I really, really, like, really enjoyed this passage.
It's so.. familiar.
It's so boldly and heartbreakingly true, and too many people have adopted this "Pharisaic" way of life that so blindly leads them.
How do we turn the other cheek, and act as if our homes are microcosms of the world? Because, if it's nice inside, then it must be nice outside, too? But if it isn't nice outside, what could we do anyway?
It's so much easier to play pretend, and lie to yourself instead of rising to the challenge and doing something.
It would be nice to have, more than once in a lifetime, somebody that breaks the mould and doesn't take the easy way out. 

I have nothing to preach. I have no lecture within these lines, I have no solution either. I just wanted to bring it to attention. Sometimes that's the best we can do.