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jscrick
at Sat Jan 23 14:56:23 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jscrick ]
It's as if the Herptoculture Hobby has been caught up in the Perfect Storm. We are between a rock and a hard place, as it were. Caught between two Elitist mentalities. Nothing but class warfare.
On the one hand we have the Nature Elitist, with their philosophy that only a few elite should be afforded the privilege of captive ownership; otherwise everything should remain wild, solely within the purview of select Elitist Professionals.
And on the other hand we have the Capitalist Elite that see our avocation as they do the Liberal Arts -- unnecessary and not profitable enough. Just too expensive to oversee and manage. An inefficiency to be eliminated.
Throw in the Media sensationalism, political demagoguery and hypocrisy, apathy and a lack of understanding by the general public, as well as a very poor overall economy and it truely does seem as if the stars are aligned against us.
It will be a tough row to hoe, indeed.
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer
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The perfect storm - jscrick, Sat Jan 23 14:56:23 2010