How quickly we forget

Yesterday, Manuel Noreiga was extradited out of the US and into France.  Personally, I would have expected a little more fanfare. 

It is hard to believe that a man who was at one point the most hated man in America didn't even make it into the "Top Stories" of my New York Times App. 

That brings me to a question: Does our society have communal ADD? We forget everything so quickly.  Anyone who has ever been shortly famous will tell you how surprising it is how quickly the media forgets about them altogether. 

I feel like, as a society, we are just looking for a new fad to focus on.  Once a person is no longer interesting (or in Noreiga's case, a cruel dictator) we just don't care anymore.  As Mr. Bolos and Doc Oc will tell us, we can only focus on so much.  So then, is the world structured like our AS class that instead of following everything poorly, we follow a few stories closely.