A Large Factor In America's Problem
Education.
People spend years focusing on one thing at the expense of everything else. Including, and especially, common sense. Then, they get their wonderful, money-grubbing job, and throw everything into it, so they can be rich and respected by their fellow educated idiots. They go to work, focus for eight plus hours, interrupted only by the need to eat or use the restroom. At the end of the day, as soon as they walk out that door, they check out. They drive like imbeciles, completely neglect their personal lives, explode at defenseless waitstaff in expensive restaurants, and operate totally and completely in a state of reaction, never thinking before acting. And they think they spent all those years and money getting smarter? No! They just specialized. If they were hunting cats, it would be as if they grew their claws to such an enormous degree and lost the ability to run.
Obviously, there are exceptions to every rule. My husband, an amazing individual, does check out after work. However, unless he is extremely rest broken, he operates at an elevated level of consciousness. He thinks on a regular basis, in fact, and I love him dearly. I do know for a fact, though, that someone like Jeremy is precious and very rare. I wish folks would place education into a better perspective, and stop putting so much damned emphasis on it.