We live in a cartoon world.
Cartoonish politicians.
Cartoonish media.
Cartoonish influencers.
Cartoonish business leaders.
All sides. All issues. All the time.
It is time to sober up.
Let's get busy moving this experiment forward.
Not perfect people, perfect ideas, nor perfect outcomes, but decent, honest people talking about the real issues, proposing real solutions, contemplating other people's opinions even though they may disagree with them sometimes, and collaborating and working towards progress.
When our leaders strictly vote party. When our media picks sides. When our influencers lead our minds to the asinine. When we have whole groups of people feeling compelled to act out in ways that erode us to get attention.
It is time.
Down is up.
Up is down.
I yearn for seriousness.
Don't you?
Stay steadfast my friends.
What you describe is simply the human condition. Not sure that we’ve ever been any different. On the adaptation graph, parts of our humanity are moving down while others are inching upward. Sure, it’s sometimes difficult to hear the music through the noise, but the dissonance drives us incrementally forward. Yes the world could use more character and this would dampen the noise. Ironically, if we are to believe Hegel, it would also cause our evolution to sputter.