I feel ya on this one. Being a teenager that actually cares about sociopolitical issues is tremendously frustrating. There's some seriously messed up stuff going on in the world, and none of my peers seem to give a damn.

It's because it doesn't directly, explicitly affect them. I've linked part of the to protect and infect talk, and one of my facebook "friends" (Ive wanted to quit facebook for a while, but idk of a messenger my friends would bother using) said, and I'm quoting here: "Yeah, I skipped to the last two minutes. I suppose it's probably ignorant to jusy say I dont care, but.. Lol".

I used to share police brutality stories with family, but my mother put a stop to that ("why are so cynical"), or she just doesn't read the stories i send her (articles about the LIBOR scandal, or why bank of america--which she uses--is horrid). I tried sending her an article about the latest NSA leaks that were relevant to her, but after a brief description she declined and said it was "too depressing."

The only way any of this shit will change will be when it becomes a direct/explicit inconvenience.