the \'lazy sunbathers\' in question are sheltered people who choose to isolate themselves from tragedies they don\'t have to deal with, and recklessly consume in a way that possibly exacerbates those tragedies for the rest of the world (\'sun burning to the earth\'s core, but its not enough they want more\').\n\nYes this could be about ww2 specifically but I think it could really apply to any issue/crisis at any time in history. \n\n1700s-French Revolution: the French elite and \'let them eat cake\' types are the lazy sunbathers here\n\n1860s-American Civil War: those of the privileged white americans who were not abolitionists and did not take any concern in the war or who had slaves are the lazy sunbathers here\n\n1940s-ww2: the Hitler sympathizers (who conveniently werent of any of the groups Hitler targeted) were gaining extraneous wealth from chumming around with nazis while of course millions were dying and they had their hands in it indirectly--they were the lazy sunbathers \n\n1970s/80s--AIDS Epidemic: the heterosexuals who pinned aids as a \'gay people problem/white people who pinned it as a \'black people problem\' leading to more fervent and violent discrimination against those groups were the lazy sunbathers\n\n2022-Russia vs. Ukraine: the Russian elite are the lazy sunbathers
the \'lazy sunbathers\' in question are sheltered people who choose to isolate themselves from tragedies they don\'t have to deal with, and recklessly consume in a way that possibly exacerbates those tragedies for the rest of the world (\'sun burning to the earth\'s core, but its not enough they want more\').\n\nYes this could be about ww2 specifically but I think it could really apply to any issue/crisis at any time in history. \n\n1700s-French Revolution: the French elite and \'let them eat cake\' types are the lazy sunbathers here\n\n1860s-American Civil War: those of the privileged white americans who were not abolitionists and did not take any concern in the war or who had slaves are the lazy sunbathers here\n\n1940s-ww2: the Hitler sympathizers (who conveniently werent of any of the groups Hitler targeted) were gaining extraneous wealth from chumming around with nazis while of course millions were dying and they had their hands in it indirectly--they were the lazy sunbathers \n\n1970s/80s--AIDS Epidemic: the heterosexuals who pinned aids as a \'gay people problem/white people who pinned it as a \'black people problem\' leading to more fervent and violent discrimination against those groups were the lazy sunbathers\n\n2022-Russia vs. Ukraine: the Russian elite are the lazy sunbathers