I get a really strong sense that it's a lot easier to be a bright kid in high school today than it was when I was in high school in the early '70s. This is a culture that actually respects intelligence. The kind of gut hostility to it that I used to experience has abated somewhat. I hate to think he had anything to do with it. That is a distressing thought.
People respond to money.
What an awful thought. I feel kind of disgusted.