" This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like " Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and " Who cares?" and " It's all bullshit anyway. "