I got mad at my kids class tonight. They were arguing in Chinese, not paying attention, whining, trying to steal reward cards and mumbling when they read. They all know better than that, they know that this sort of behavior irritates me. They know we have more fun when I’m not irritated so I always wonder why they can’t behave.

But thinking about it more they’re very much like humanity in general. We do so many stupid things that we know are stupid; stupid because they make us sick or cause fights or run up our debt or pollute. Why aren’t we any smarter than the kids? Why aren’t we all smarter?

Mandy and I went to Gordon Biersch on Sunday. We both ate meals that were too large for us, too salty and too expensive. I saw a family of white people (they looked like Americans) and it all reminded me of the worst of America. Why do we spend money we don’t have? Why do we eat food we don’t need? Why don’t we behave in a way that is to our benefit?

I’m not trying to single out American’s here, I’m only speaking about the people I’m most familiar with, every place that there are people there are people behaving stupidly and then failing to learn from their stupid behavior.

Now I don’t believe for a second that we’re inherently flawed by some so called original sin, in fact I believe we’re born as pretty damn amazing creatures capable of learning, playing, making friends, helping each other… so why is it that we so often act like a species of spoiled brats?