Wallowing

Most humans don't want to evolve to higher civilization. They want to continue to wallow in cultural stagnation and decadence. The system they've built around themselves is stultifying, keeps them from bettering their selves, in fact brings out the worse in them. And they don't care, don't even care enough to look deep, and so there's no vision abroad, just willful blindness. So they just wallow in vulgarity and worthless entertainments as much as they can as a diversion from the reality of their lives, which is: they have smothered that which aspires. Humans have evolved, but stopped short of finding their proper niche in the Biosphere-- that is what's wrong with them and everything they do. They must move on, or it's all over.