That Which is Most Personal is Most Universal

Are we losing our ability to engage in personal conversation between one another?  We draw common experience from current events of the day and those politics, celebrity comings and going or sporting events dominate our conversation.  But why?  What is gained by knowing that some professional basketball player has added a hideous tatoo or a politician has broken yet another promise.  Where in the grand scheme of how we live our lives do those topics touch us and how?  In the course of our human experience it is the most intimate of experience that is the most universal among us.  Yet, we choose to draw upon the antics of the foolish rather than celebrate the well worn lives of the wise.  Is it possible to draw richer conclusion about who we are and what we are striving to become?  In this episode we draw a few foundational conclusions regarding our method of connection and the value of celebrating our cohesion rather than our discord.