Duke: I’d like to amplify your post a little bit further, and point out the number of attorneys this country mints versus those in the science and technical professions. Hell, you had people with degrees in high order mathematics (the so-called “quants”) going to work on Wall Street because that’s where the money was.
We need to fix our educational system, along with our values system. The fact that we’re rapidly becoming the world’s worst educated, but most well armed third world nation should alarm the shit out of everyone.
Did you ever see the movie “Idiocracy”? Funny as hell and scary as hell, all at the same time.