Wow, this is a pretty healthy thread. I note a remark to the effect that there are no trolls here. So I volunteer (women view me as a troll; so we’re good?).

What has been required for the AGW crowd to swell is pretty much a dumbing down of the population. A good Bell Curve enhanced by mediocre teaching (so that the quotae could be met), along with a populist mentality, leaves a more learned subset of folks frustrated, small in number, but eminantly able to survive.

I’ve seen employment applications with a nearest relative listed as “my daddy” and his address as “at home”. Seldom do I see a news column without serious grammatical or syntactical errors. Certainly 1+1 is still taught, but I’m thinking that hunting, tracking, squirreling away fodder in the fall (conservatism in practice), manners, courtesy, and saluting the flag, all once common and essential elements in understanding the fragility of survival, the necessity of social grace, and the pratice of unity, are being ignored, if not replaced. At least in the urban areas.

If replaced, by what? Easy come, easy go? Screw your buddy? “So, like dude, whatever”?

Being a troll has some advantages. Not least of which is stealth; no one wants to believe we exist until you want to share our ability to feast in the lean times. Good luck with that.