Where Has Common Sense Gone?: Floating and Not Engaging

We live in a society which no longer engages reality, especially the reality of human cultural engagement. Instead we float, avoiding all engagement, just imagining that things will somehow come out all right. They won't. We need to once more engage the reality that surrounds us and inform it so that we once more become a city on a hill and not just a slum of sludge that has aggregated as the flood passes.