Some while back I was walking through Soho with friends, and there was a girl being sick in the gutter as her girlfriends held her: She sounded like she was in pain. A group of men passing noticed them and excitedly drew out their mobile phone cameras, shouting "this looks like a Kodak moment!" We pushed them back, saying "What the f*** are you doing?"
And some months before that, in the hall of Charing Cross tube station, a group of expensively-dressed teenagers were posing and taking photos of themselves next to a sleeping tramp.
Other than these incidents, I've found that people in general are more and more willing to create a fight over nothing - I was accused, in error, of taking someone's place in a cash machine queue. When I told him that he was mistaken to think that his friend, as he said, was 'keeping the place for him', he instantly became furious. I said that this is not the sort of thing I fight over and gave him the place, but many others would respond in kind. Many men would now literally stab someone to death to contest their position in a queue. It seems utterly pathetic and the opposite of 'masculine' behaviour (dignity, strength, courage, compassion etc).
Why are people like this? Extreme boredom, they have nothing interesting in their lives, nothing engages them - they never put their lives on the line for something that matters, only in defense of an ego ideal they don't even comprehend.
Eventually the individual identifies itself as a commodity to be progressively cheapened like all the others.