What in the living fuck is going on in our country?

[Frank Cannon]

18. It's like some sort of viral dementia has taken root.

I avoid Facebook, because friends with whom I grew up, who used to be, nice, reasonable, and somewhat intelligent, now all act like raving maniacs. It's sad. And scary.

Stephen King once wrote a short story about some doctors who accidentally release an experimental virus that turns people into blithering idiots. The doctors are frantically trying to find a cure before they, themselves, are too stupid to do anything about it. Their notes start to read like the last two chapters of Flowers for Algernon, and pretty soon the whole world is barely competent enough to tie their own shoes.

I think Mr. King was on to something. It's the only way I can explain what seems to be going on around me every day. And it's getting worse and worse.