We live in a world full of flash and skin-deep sentiment, where people like Brittany Spears have their every move watched and analyzed as if they were demi-gods. I had an illness recently and had the opportunity to watch day-time television for several days and between the TV Judge deciding whether a husband's displaying pornographic photos of his wife online is grounds for divorce, Maury Povich trying to help determine who the unmarried woman's baby-daddy is among her fiance and four other acquaintances, and the fawning Entertainment Reporters who approach their prey with equal parts jealousy, admiration, and hatred, I have nearly lost my faith in human nature.
Acts like that of Mr Autrey do a significant amount of in the way of restoring it. Unfortunately, his act will usher him into the same level of talk-show fame that winning American Idol or disappearing in Aruba can grant you. Most people will marvel that a man will do something so instinctive to help another while putting themselves in jeopardy. I really believe that such is our true nature, and that our obsession with triviality is what makes us sceptical of it.