Does “Truth, Justice, and the American way” still exist? 

Is a sober understanding of reality better than apathetic ignorance? 

Gnarls.

Truth, justice and the American way are a smokescreen. For as long as I've been coherent enough to observe the world around me I've not seen either of the three. There are instances that do come through, but the majority fall short of either or all three. People in genaeral are conniving, insolent, selfish. vacillating lumps of steaming fecal matter. Doesn't matter the race,color, religion or financial bracket they fall into it is a rare occurance to find a decent human being. All that especially applies to government.

Might as well consider all that in the persuit of life, liberty, and and happiness.

Apathy is just a hole we all eventually fall into due to the B.S. above. Fat and dumb lend to a false sense of happiness, The false happy people are selfish and only see their world without inclination to share their world or enter the world/s of others for fear of losing that false happiness. Illusion and fantasy are the driving forces of the human race.