Is anyone polite anymore? Is anyone honest anymore? What doom will befall the world when we all close ourselves off from outsiders and sit in isolation, letting only a frightened media in on the TV or PC in through the locked doors from time to time? Do we all want to be millionaires? Survivors? Jackasses? Does anyone truly believe in what they are fighting for? Is anyone fighting for anything worthwhile, anything unselfish, anything that can't be given a ten-second soundbite and summed up like the plot to a trashy novel, all steam and heat and nothingness? I confess to being a culprit as well, I confess to being alone, does the world have a place for the best and brightest to bring reason and intelligence into the debate? Would it overload the majority mind to consider the alternatives? When did egotism become fashionable, when did self-centeredness become as sacrosanct as ancient theories of the earth being the center of the known universe? When did we start to disassociate ourselves from our selves?