Refers to a class of complacent individuals generally unbothered by the state of social, political, economic, or environmental injustice that surrounds them. Such individuals are typically anesthetized by media influences like movies cable TV, magazines, and related consumerism.
We could tell that the women were members of the complacent class as they drove to church in their Hummer SUV after spending the day eating Big Macs and shopping at the mall next to the coal fired power-plant.
Although humans possess the necessary critical thinking and problem-solving skills to alter the ever so grim fate of the planet, they dissent in denial and refusal from the dark complacent well of apathy unto the destruction of the planet.