The Biggest Problem in our Society

I realized that the easiest way to describe the biggest problem facing us is this:

Most people, in fact the vast majority of them, cannot distinguish between "it is", "I think", and "I feel."

Speaking of which, I saw the movie Idiocracy tonight. It has its very crude moments, and there are a couple of problems with it in terms of some basic assumptions, but it is worth watching. One of the interesting things is that it gives a good visual or the notion of cultural capital, although for the population to get as stupid as depicted, the artifacts of a better age would have deteriorated much faster, and would not have been able to be maintained. Also, some of our dumber causes are not thought so by the creators of the film, so they are not shown. If I had made the film, there would be a strong sentimental/sappy side to the culture, and it would have had our current neo-puritanism/overindulgence syndrome magnified by a thousand. Unfortantely for Hollywood types, these things are not seen as stupid in their circles.

In spite of that, it is funny, in the Team America World's Police mode. In other words, crude to downright offensive, certainly not for children, yet outrageously funny and spot on in its parody of some of the worst traits of our culture.