Is Intelligence that Tough?

What are the majority of conscious, tax paying, American, citizens doing right now? They are using their mind for something besides sleeping. Working, watching television, surfing the world wide web, learning, thinking, etc, and many are of course sleeping.
The world that we all live in presents us with its difficulties regardless of what we think. What we think though, and how we use the thought processes that we should all be very familiar with, seems to create the situations that we, as humans, seem to find ourselves enmeshed in.
This is our constant battle with one another.
It is almost like we have all been programmed (or something like that) too think that we know.
All forms of information and data can only be retrieved and utilized by a language that was created to understand that information, but it does not stop there.
We cannot just think and remember crap all day long and expect to harvest anything but crap from our inputs. GIGO...garbage in equals garbage out!
While the truth may be in the garbage can, the garbage man will only see it as garbage.
When you need to be paying attention to something important that you are doing, you do not need to be distracted by something else lobbying for your attention.
Do not watch the television when you are driving. Cell phones are bad enough, and we are just talking about paying enough attention to safely drive a car in traffic.
As citizens of this country it is our job to drive this country...Remember 'WE THE PEOPLE', or have you replaced that with some information about CSI or some other program? Our country, this United States of America is a wreck, and it is 'WE THE PEOPLE'S' fault. We are the, or perhaps, were, the drivers of this country.
Ha Ha Ha, you can kiss that thought GOODBYE!
So; that said......Is intelligence that tough?
Can you be aware of your thinking process, and the content of your consciousness, when you are addicted to being told what to think, what to buy, who too worship, and what you should think in the first place during all of the spare time that you have? You have no time for reflection? Your information is the information that they have put into your head! Does lousy television make for lousy citizens or what! Don't you think that being entertained is much more important than understanding and participating in the democratic process? Of course you do. This is your programming, and it also provides you with your 'sugar tit' of an answer about what is happening in our world. Did you see..such and such...or you sit with glazed eyes watching totally fake and made up news and think it is the truth.
The tool is to much for its possessor.
When humans spoke and remembered, the genie (whichever one it was) was let out of the bottle.
There has been nothing but trouble and mayhem since that day, which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that humans are related to chimpanzees, haha; To paraphrase myself: We have only been monkeying around with language so far.