I really can't believe what I'm seeing with the general public. I'm having to deal with major stupidity every day...often at least twice per day. One of the latest is watching a title company struggle with understanding a basic trust. I may not be able sell a home because of it. Told my realtor I'll just rent the place out until I die....haha! Then, my son saw a diminutive gay white kid punched in the head five times by a "youth" in class at school while also threatening to kill him. The campus police officer showed up and asked the victim, "What did you say to make him hit you?" My son flew off the handle at this line of questioning and the cop threatened to throw him out of the room. Proud of my boy. Even with autism he sees the raw stupidity. The perp wasn't suspended...probably because of his pigment. Now, I'm working on a project where a team of what I thought were strong professionals had designed a fuel pipeline system. (I was tossed into the mix very late in the project, after construction started). Now that we're about to complete construction it's clear that they didn't have a handle on the physics and I'll be up late crunching numbers trying to verify if it will flow or not. Every damn day I'm seeing massive stupidity in critical areas...basic areas, from people who are trusted specifically to get it right. I regularly think that if we had to put man back on the moon, about 53 years later, we'd probably blow up a dozen or more astronauts in the process (I do think non-government entities could do it). Part of this phenomenon appears to be a collapse of public education. I had "faith" that I could get my kids an education in a better public school system but not too sure about that now. I'm watching the wheels come off the cart.

How are the young people in America going to deal with this? I keep thinking they'll probably have to get tactical and simply leave for another country. Thailand? Chile? Norway? I'm thinking a country that values intellect and is militarily uninvolved.