> Talking to Americans about this is futile and exasperating, and pointless. I would say: it depends. Doing so in small quantities I can certainly agree with

> Talking to Americans about this is futile and exasperating, and pointless. I would say: it depends. Doing so in small quantities I can certainly agree with the sentiment, but if you talk to people in massive quantities, especially in certain ways, over time you start to notice patterns in their speech, and it seems reasonable to presume that this reflects patterns in thought. It may not seem like it, but we live in a system, and like all systems it can be analyzed. It doesn't have to be though....one can go through their whole life just taking all of this weirdness for granted as most people do, but imagine if the pioneers of science decided to just shrug their shoulders at all the patterns they saw around them? Where would we be if not for anomalies like them?