/lit/ - Literature

This is clearly what London felt like during the Blitz. Exploding V-2 rockets everywhere, and yet life continues as blandly and placidly as ever.

Where's Tyrone Slothrop when you need him?

>8. Religion
What passes for religion in America nowadays is bullshit. Mostly because you can't forcibly integrate a church. Churches should be taxed at this point due to their interference in politics. I'd be a Roman Catholic if there were still Catholics like Dorothy Day or Mother Cabrini. But there ain't. Instead we get Scalia and Mel Gibson.
>9. The environment
Overstated problem. I want to ask Al Gore what he thinks of the Maunder Minimum. I know I'm out of lockstep with the left on this one.
>10. Affirmative action and race relations
Affirmative action has done its job at this point. Most of the racism in this country comes from black people who hate white people, not vice versa. Also, blacks are 13 percent of the population---don't we waste way too much time thinking about them, and listening to them complain? The Jews were slaves in Egypt once. Guess what? They got over it. A new generation of black scholars, however, is backing away from resentment and approaching realistic solutions. Read "Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of School Desegregation" by Stuart Buck.
>11. The current plague of mental illness in our society including disorders and diseases such as Asperger's/Autism, OCD, ADHD, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy etc.
Aspergers and Autism and ADHD are overdiagnosed. They probably come from overexposure to television. OCD is a reaction to societal pressures, I suspect. Downs Syndrome and CP are genetic conditions.