How Bad Are We?

How bad are we? Or, more to the point, how good are the professionals? This post is literally going to be the short suitable for speech part of a long brain storm. I don't mean I swear a lot in my mind. It just means that I am not a very good writer and cannot put into words what I am trying to say. I was a good writer, somebody would be reading this, and I wouldn't be writing on this page.