[backhoe]

You bet... I don't editorialize much, but sometimes I wonder if we human beings are capable of passing what we have learned from one generation to the next.

Some people entertain the illusion that you can negotiate with evil- that if you just manage to select the correct "process" or "protocol," or can figure out how to "frame the issues" properly the ravening nature of the skull behind the smiley-face will somehow be mitigated...

Yet even a cursory study of history belies that naive and happily foolish belief-- just look at the bloody road to the second World War- a road littered with the tattered remains of treaties & protocols & agreements between nations. Every one of them irrelevant once the bullets started flying and men started dying.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Kids naturally think their parents don't know much, believing everything revolves around them and their peers. As they grow older and wiser, they "discover" the truth. Unfortunately, the public education, pop cultural, media propaganda machine feeds into this generational split to advance their agenda.