@ Noamaan: That is the great Louis C.K., and I thank you for digging up that link because his words were actually ringing in my ears as I wrote the post above, but you left out arguably his most relevant sentence:

"Now we live in, in an amazing, amazing world and it's wasted on the, on the crappiest generation of just spoiled idiots that don't care, because, this is what people are like now."