Originally Posted by analog

Yeah. I mean, there's actually a thread on the boards right now where people are arguing over whether or not people should care about the world around them. Literally. People are being called insensitive and others are saying it's perfectly fine to not care or be informed.

That's a sad, pathetic view- but also very typical, which reminds me just how far this country as a whole has to go to actually grow up.

The forward-moving areas do well enough, but the areas where they're moving backward... well, it seems they move faster in the other direction all the time.