It's good and dead, long live zombie poetry.

I don't blame people individually -- for a long time it's suited "society" (whatever or whomever that may be) to encourage self interest.  The more people focus on themselves, the less time they have to notice what else is going on. 

I just would have hoped that by now people would realise that the self is not such a fascinating subject, but I'm beginning to doubt that will ever happen.