Sweet-do-nothings

“As long as you’re fascinated and as long as you keep on fighting the things you think are wrong, you’re living. It isn’t the evil people in the world who do the most harm. It’s the sweet do-nothings that can destroy us.” Edna Ferber

Enda watched the rise of Nazi’s from the US and wrote: "It was a fearful thing to see a continent - a civilization - crumbling before one's eyes. It was a rapid and seemingly inevitable process to which no one paid any particular attention."

I wonder how future authors are being shaped by todays events; and I wonder how todays events are shaping sweet-do-nothings.