Wish I shared that conviction. There's something about the "genie out of the bottle" theory that strikes me as all too true. In the Blue Zone, right now, "normal" behavior is what would have been considered shocking and dismaying only a few years ago. Just look at the public commentary on the Van Dam family--the California swingers who were busily holding an orgy (or recovering from one) when their little girl was murdered. Over and over again, the words of their publicist are echoed: These people were merely pursuing their own dreams, and who can say that's wrong? Societies do collapse, and this one seems to me to be moving swiftly toward self-inflicted ruin.