@Frank Apisa,
You must be joking Frank!! Ever the man for the easy answer aren't you. If I would just spell it out indeed.
Increasing angst, ennui, alienation, incomprehension, inarticulateness and general mixed up confusion. Is that short enough? If you want the causes of that you need to read a lot more books, and of a different sort, to what you are used to. But in a word "television". And particularly where television is open to the blasts of pure commercialism and, of necessity, pandering to the Seven Deadly Sins.
The Trivia threads can be played as a form of discussion. On there we fans have none of the faults you mention.
But people who promote a certain idea with no reference to its consequences if the promotion is successful and the idea adopted are stupid and should be so labelled. When they refuse to take the consequences into account when it is pointed out that they should do they are ignorant. And should be called so.
I think also that we have a few younger members coming on recently who are full of it and think they know all the answers and wish to strut their stuff gleaned from some course in an 'ology using the brilliantine words they have learned how to spell.
I'm all for a bit of argy bargy though.
