Disk_Pusher

There is no guarentee that a child of the most intelligent, independent, and foreward thinking people will turn out like them. I come from a conservative Republican family - and I'm nothing like the people who raised me, idealogically or otherwise. I think the only thing that should be taught but never can be is the ability to think for one's self. I got lucky - I learned how to do that, even if it was in a very repressed and sometimes self-defeating way.

I agree that with a rising populaton, the idiot factor goes up, but also, one must take care to not judge a book by it's cover. Are you another idiot on the American treadmill to the grave, or something else? While you are the only person who knows, the people who judge you are often those who see half the story or less.