What are some of the ways in which modern culture is "fatalistic" (in the ancient Greek sense of the word?

Don't we accept traffic accidents and deaths as inevitable? They are the greater than what is happening in Afghanistan and Iraq, yet we accept them.

Dont we look at homelessness with the same view, it is destiny for some people?

What about seeing poverty in Africa, and Asia? Or Political death squads in South America? Are we viewing those as part of life?