So America is kinda like the fate of a popular bar with unlimited capacity and no screening door-man; the first to popularize it were the cool classy people, but then followed the poor and less educated and the place went to hell. :)
Or like the 60s hippie movement that was popularized by peaceful acid-eating intellectuals and artists, but was ruined by violent speed-eating lowlifes that had no clue. (I'd put a smiley-face here too, but the resemblance is just getting too damned uncanny.) Or like a religion ... no, never mind that one. ------------------------ The impetus for the high literacy of the colonists was that the colonies were initially settled by people already literate in Europe, with strong dedication to education and study. They were not a random selection of Europeans. Much of the decline seems to have come from waves of immigrants from the less-educated classes of Europe diluted educated values. -- Jon ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- Constitution Society 2900 W Anderson Ln C-200-322, Austin, TX 78757 512/299-5001 www.constitution.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- --
