It's a disease, a rot. As you die it's not usually one thing you can point to. Sure cancer is like that, that right there is what killed them. But most people die as a result of a combination of things. That's how America dies. A combination of anti-intellectualism, faith and propaganda.
As long as it's about something cool, and not about what people I don't know are doing, I'm good. I dgaf what some random person does, or anything about their life. Give me weird nature facts.
This is why I can't date people who talk too much. They go on a 20 minute monologue and after I try several times to add input, and then they keep going, I get frustrated that I couldn't say anything, and now the topic is changing so I'll come off looking like I wasn't listening to the whole thing so now I'm falling behind on what they're talking, I catch up and find something relevant to say if they ever stop talking, but they don't, so I lose interest and start thinking about something else. But after my train of thought hits a few stops and they're still fucking talking and then I'm internally screaming at them to SHUT THE FUCK UP! And I Invision either my sudden brutal death or theirs.
Looking at our government? Yes.