social media, youtube stuff -- we are so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense is ahumanity, and there coarsening of interaction. richieok at this incognito business. 20 years ago, that probably never would have come out, and yet 20 minutes after it happens, boom. now it's part of the social conversation. i actually think part of that is a good thing. it is what it is. ultimately, people who tell stories, people who try to make sense of all that stuff, attempt togoing to , inte a moral center anything that's going on. you're right, it gets harder and harder to do it in a world in which there is so much visible depravity. i'm not sure that there is more depravity than there was 100 years ago. i just think it's instantaneous now. i think as writers, as locateiners, you try to the essential moral center that i think most people really strive for. since you mentioned this -- this uglys situation with mr. incognito and mr. martin. i think it was oral war and who said years ago that you read the sports pages first because it told of man's accomplishment. nowadays, that's not alway