>> 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.

>> IT may not come to that. A pending execution concentrates the mind, but
>> so also, does a pending foreclosure.

>
> Epigenetics confirms what you say.
> Interesting epigenetics links :
> http://www.epigeneticstation.com/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genes/issa.html
>
> and of course a Google search.