I agree with pierce completely.
Most of my friends are very apathetic, and I am likewise. I mean we'll crack Bush jokes and stuff I guess but we aren't discussing Burma.
Pierce can vouch, my friend's are probably more worried about cramming for their midterm or determining which bar to go to on the weekend than
Bush's shrinking safety zone.
Maybe it comes with age. Probably. But from my environment for the past, 19 years, not now.