A Whisper to a Scream

There are a few things that I know to be true. People are way too concerned with themselves, and we are here for less than a second on the continuum. If you study the past, you get a glimpse into the future, but the moment you are in is it. It's everything.
Not to say there aren't important events, or influential people. Right now events are taking place that will effect the world, and people are influencing those events. It's just that it never really changes anything. We are all just caught in the flow, a great big cycle. Pre, post, neo, first wave, third wave, modern, tradionalist, fundamentalist, liberal, conservative, anarachists. It just keeps going around. I'm kind of bored with it.
What are we fighting about today? Stimulus package, Health Care Reform, projected inflation, projected quagmire in Afghanistan, projected exponential growth of the deficit, potential of H1N1 to decimate the population, obesity, cancer, aids, illiteracy, the collapse of family values.
Can these problems really be solved? I know how I feel about these issues. Maybe you feel differently. So the "right" answer comes from the group who collects the most money, the most power and influence? Is the "right" answer the one that comes from the person who screams the loudest at the town hall conference? Am I right if I'm more clever in the way I word my speech? Are you right because you are a martyr? Is she right because it says so in the bible? What does it say in the Koran?
I don't know if I'm feeling apathy. I still open my mouth and say what I think, and I still put my money where my mouth is. I will still go march in the streets of Seattle when passion moves me. I still pay attention. But I'm getting the feeling more and more that the great fights just keep us busy and we are all missing the real point.
The real point? It sounds so self righteous and smug.
It's just that what if the conclusion you and I draw came from a flawed premise? Then what?