Why I Can't Tune In To The News

I'm going to try and ignore the fact that people read this right here...

We had to watch a film in class today titled "Inherit the Wind"
The film is a dramatization (well that much was obvious) of the Scopes trial in the early 20th century. The trial was on whether or not a teacher should be punished for teaching evolutionary theories. Then name of the film comes from Proverbs 11:29, which says : He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

So anyway... we're watching this film, and then about an hour into it i just completely lost myself.
It's not that i really care about the debate between intelligent design and evolution, which apparently troubles one of my teachers, but i guess more so the issue is why i don't care about the debate... And then on the next level: any debate in particular...
The movie had arrived at a point where the defense attorney's entire group of witnesses (zoologists, scientists, and archeologists) had been deemed irrelevant to the case. Because of this the defense attorney seeks to be dropped from the case, as it had reached preposterous levels of ignorance and bias. Instead of dropping him, the judge holds him in contempt of court, and makes it mandatory that he stays... The next scene is of people setting fire to a scarecrow analogous to the defense attorney...
At this point i had to walk into the hall and i fell to my ass crying on the wheelchair ramps... I just... Idk... i can't fathom why people are so quick to anger against one another...
And it's this fact that has made me stop paying attention to any world events...
It seems like we've become so concerned with this illusory battle of "right vs. wrong" that we fail to see that the real issue on things is whether or not something is making a person's life better...
So i've stopped watching the news... and i laugh at things that are terrible, because to see them in any other light is not something i can continually do...

Humans become so quick to attack one another over ideas, that it makes me wonder whether or not i actually want to have any ideas...
And i dread that we as thinking, feeling beings may be more than well on our way to inheriting the wind.