Dunno, haven't read any of those. But if you're sure that something like that exists, I'd like to hear how is it achievable on human psychology. Biographies as in the stories of their lives not as in books about those stories. Try wikipedia, these aren't obscure figures.
On the other hand, there are no humans that seem to care about anything in particular that's going on in the world.
This is way too strong, isn't it? I also don't think the reason a lot of people ignore these tragedies has as much to do with conformism as it does self-interest. People don't want to give up their vacation money. If anything there is social pressure in favor of sacrificing for moral causes. As for values, I think most people would say that the fact they don't do more is a flaw. "If I was a better person I would do x" or "Wow, I respect you so much for doing x" or "I should do x but I want y so much." I think it is fair to interpret these statements as second order desires that represent values.
Remember what I said about "lip service"?
If they want to care about stuff, that's kinda implying that they don't actually care about stuff (yet). Also, based on simple psychology, someone who chooses a spot in the conformist zone that requires giving lip service to something creates cognitive dissonance which easily produces second order desire to want what you claim you want. But what is frightening here is how this choice of values is arbitrary to the ultimate. If you'd judged another spot to be cheaper, you'd need to modify your values in a different way.
On both cases though, it seems that people really rarely move any bit towards actually caring about something.
ITT we talk about whatever.