Well put.
on a different note; With the 1 in 5 opioid epidemic the country (and Trump States in particular) have become comfortably numb.
In literature they called the drug soma. Today it is a reality we call Oxycodone.

Now I go out of my way to enhance racial friendship and peace.
After all, I was one of those kids at the Lincoln Memorial for King's I have a dream, speech.

Pain is good up to the point of informing us something is wrong.