[chefsurfing]

My suggestion is to focus yourself on doing the activities in your life that you find virtuous. Make a list of three things you decide are valuable and pursue them. Focus on them and do them one at a time. Trust me, this will work. You complain that people are not free, well Bob Marley said: "none but ourselves can free our own minds" and while I don't agree with all of his statements, this one I find to be true. So my suggestion is to focus on freeing yourself first. Lead by example and the negativity will fall away into the background.

Ideas on virtue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue