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Wait a second, the man was complaining about society disconnecting from their overall objective. The only people today that understand anything that is going on are the ones trying to contribute. The rest are turning off, tuning away and dropping out through THEIR subsidized living. How do we continue to maintain that? You are basically saying the status quo is a perfectly fine environment for a society when its not. Not at all.

Yes, we are "privileged to live in a sophisticated, organized, interdependent community". Does the rest of the community know this? No, and they're not demonstrating that at all. Just look over the past 100 years and tell me which generations knew they had it good and strived to continue that effort.

Only dead societies can tell the tales we're starting to.