Perhaps I misspoke. To clarify my point, I do not believe there is an active conspiracy, simply that the non-profit environmentalist/conservationist/nature loving groups learned a lesson or two back in the 70's and 80's from the for profit industrial corporations. They have become corporations themselves. Albeit non-profit, still corporations, with -- agendas, boards of directors, budgets, executive officers, etc. They have adopted the corporate mantle in order to do battle with their corporate foes.
Between the two the individual, the layman, the hobbyist gets lost.
That was the point I was trying to make.
And yes, it is all about dumbing down America. Government does it, For Profit Corporate America does it, Not For Profit America does it, Institutional America does it. That's what is such a shame about the whole thing. We here in America have the freedom, resources, and where-with-all to be as intelligent and informed as anyone on the planet, and yet we choose to be ignorant.
By spoon feeding the public with what to think and how to think those in control have reduced our power of reason to that of the equivalent of possessing Diabetic Gray Matter. The publics' intellect and reason destroyed by the drug of Intellectual Sloth.
jsc
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