I don't know, maybe I'm just insane but ... Arab dictators thinking that Arabs won't be religious, spiritually ready to die for their cause, and vengeful if they are mowed down in their own streets by their own soldiers? Louisiana governor saying the worst flood in 80 years is "no problem" (at least for New Orleans)? A bunch of Republicans running around like 4-year-olds with loaded guns shooting up the US government and nobody says "Hey give me those, you brats!"? A world where the news of some old geezer screwing a hotel maid is treated like a history-shaping event, and the world's most powerful country stands behind a bunch of tin-plated despots because the big country's navy has to strut its dick in the Red Sea?
Sorry, folks, I guess I've been unplugged from your grid too long but all this shit seems like ... well, shit. You really suck all this stuff up? Two hemophialacs getting married absorbs you? Some big-tit bimbo falls on a national dance show and people are anxious? Hey, a dumbshit murderer gets offed for killing 3000 people, whoop-de-doo, let's have 400 TV hours of coverage?
I can understand why it gets confusing ... I watch TV reports of Louisiana rednecks saying "Wal, we have to leave behind all memories of jet-skis, 4-wheelin', ATVing, and drivin' awr pickup trucks 'round hyar, and don' understand why Mother Nature is bein' so MEAN to us.." (yes, global warming isn't YOUR fault)
I hear Republicans saying DAMN, the federal government shouldn't run our lives, leave it up to the states ... but don't hear anybody else saying "Why should the states run our lives? Why not the counties, parishes, or boroughs? Wait, no, the MUNICIPALITIES! Holy fuck, why let a CITY COUNCIL run our lives? EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF!!" But no, nobody points out the absurdities...
And I see Americans drinking clean water, flushing their shit away down a hole, driving over thousands of miles of paved highways, complaining about "expensive gas", dumping 50 pounds of debris in landfills every week and saying "Oh man, our lives are SHITTY!" .... and I get confused too.
I guess all I can do is sit back and see what happens next. However, I have a feeling that no matter what mankind thinks about itself and its worth, the planet may have a different valuation on us.
Guess we'll just have to wait and see.