I don’t understand why you are getting downvoted. This was an incredibly salient point.

What we are observing is that regardless of our vast technological progression, a statistically significant percentage of the population continues to suffer from a clinical form of emotional retardation that has severely stunted their ability to think rationally, to feel empathy, or in many cases both.

At some point our species is going to have to learn how to correct for this aberration, or we will reach an untimely evolutionary dead end.