>has begun to be unraveled by the human genome and the DNA markers that
>indicate the effect of dietary deficit and contamination, the effect of
>chemicals on the development of children, and the resulting
>socio-pathology from having parents whose minds did not develop properly
>either.
>
>The condition has also become global. Demographics show that kids raised
>on family farms, especially the Amish, Mennonite, etc, do not have the
>same degree or variety of mental pathologies like ADD, autism, ADHD,
>ICD, etc. The small town schools these kids go to dont have the same
>rate of violence or dropouts, have better test scores, and higher
>graduation rates.
>
>These kids are not raised on sugar cereals, junkfood, and soda either.
>You can track the decline in academic performance with the rise in the
>use of agribusiness petrochemicals. And this has been going on so long
>that it has lowered the level of rationality in the electorate so that
>the level of demagoguery has increased and the rate of effective policy
>has declined.
>
>If you grew up exposed to this crap and are still rational, you are damn
>lucky. Any look at all the ad hominum in the postings shows how high the
>rate of neurosis is. Dr. Freud noted how when you present the facts to a
>neurotic, he is angry, not educated. So, rational discourse here, or
>anywhere else will not result in solutions. He also said that it takes a
>severe trauma to awake a neurotic from his delusions.
>
>If we have a severe economic crisis, we can expect an awakening. But we
>also know people will wake up angry, and you do not want to be in their
>way as they seek vengeance and start dragging the bastards out to be
>shot. Both Oriental and Occidental sages said that in uncertain times
>its best to have an obscure home in the country.
>
>There seems to be some who understand because the fastest growing
>demographic cited by the Census Bureau is the "X-urb", those who moved
>out beyond the suburban fringe, often with a hobby farm where they can
>at least, grow their own food while they await the revolution trying to
>take back the assets stolen by the Power Elites.
>
>IT may not come to that. A pending execution concentrates the mind, but
>so also, does a pending foreclosure.