" And when the first famines began, they were elsewhere, and the growing numbers of wars were elsewhere, the atrocities and horrors were elsewhere, and elsewhere is always the fault of others, and others were always less able and more stupid than them, and so they didn’t worry too much about these things either, nor were they overly concerned when refugees fleeing these horrors were turned away from their borders or incarcerated because, with their two eyes and noses, it was clear they weren’t really like them at all, but freaks. "

― Richard Flanagan , The Living Sea of Waking Dreams