Idiots

We are all  a lot of things; a walking dollar sign should not be one of them. Sadly, our take-it-all world no longer views us as citizens or patients or customers. We are consumers: of government, of health care, of goods and services. We are not names or faces or voices. Yet even as we bemoan the ills of society, and say we understand—or even know—how to fix them, we blithely continue shopping.