http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline
Gasoline lead may explain as much as 90 percent of the rise and fall of violent crime over the past half century.
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Society
Three Waves of Massive Change in Human Society
The Republicans fondly remember 1860, when the common man stood behind a plow, and the Democrats fondly remember 1960, when the common man stood behind a stamping machine. … the Republicans shovel money at farmers, endorse prayer in school, and tell us to worship our heroes fighting for manifest destiny, and the Democrats shovel money at unionized teachers, endorse government run mass transit, and tell us to worship dense urban living.
~ Patrick Clark from, http://www.popehat.com/2013/02/12/one-wave-behind/
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From a great piece about the waves of change in society; You might want to bone up on your Alvin Toffler too…
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