AND WHILE I'M ON THE SUBJECT OF MENTAL HEALTH...
Take a look at this passage from Kurt Vonnegut's short story, Harrison Bergeron, (full text if you're interested at http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html):
"It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains."
The story involves a hellbound, future society that is so worried about anarchy that they handicap their citizens with devices that harm their ability to hold a coherent thought - they interrupt every conceivable...
(oh wait, my email just pinged me....)
Anyway, where was I? Oh, Harrison Bergeron. Right. The point is, what Vonnegut may have been predicting was...
(hold on, gotta take this cellphone call.)
Vonnegut...
(love that Internet radio...have I downloaded my podcasts today?)
Serve the state. Don't question. We don't believe in torture. We're fighting them over there so we don't need to fight them over here. Iran may have the bomb. Immigrants are overrunning our country.