What's the current leading theory (or theories) on the reason for human's species-wide insanity?

Ho boy… In no particular order…

::deep breath of doom::

  1. Our political leaders, the things they say on record, and the fact that we keep electing the buggers [coughScabbottcough]

  2. Profits are more important than having crops [neocontids-v-bees]

  3. Profits are more important than the environment we need to live [looking at you Monsanto/BP]

  4. Profits are more important than having employees who can afford to buy your products [the minimum wage fiasco]

  5. Profits are more important than people [ALL Big Business]

  6. Red cabbage

  7. Figure skating

  8. A female celebrity’s cellulite will grab page 1 quicker than any natural disaster where people die

  9. Red onion

  10. All competitive sports

  11. We went to another planetoid before we put wheels on burdens heavy enough to physically damage us

  12. We have an industry dedicated to giving people eating disorders

  13. We create ghettos and persecute the people who have to live there, but idolise the people who created the circumstances that made the ghettos

  14. The continuing “war on poverty” that’s actually a war on poor people

  15. The fact that solar freaking roadways weren’t immediately adopted in the face of the continuing fossil fuel crisis

  16. The hole in the ozone layer and why it was ignored

  17. The hole in the ozone layer and why it was denied

  18. We tame predators and live with them

  19. Sometimes, we don’t even bother with the ‘taming’ part

  20. Predatory business practices and the laws put in place to protect them

I think 20’s a good start. Don’t you?

I’m sure you can find others if you look.