As our species & country evolve I have found advanced ideas I had years ago, & propelled me into the ranks of the oddball, are coming or have come to fruition. When I was 5 years old I would speak of the ecology & no one knew what I was talking about. Thinking & feeling animals was scoffed at. Racial equality was scorned. Gay rights was considered a disease or an abomination. Women should not have muscles. Insects are something to be squashed. Herbicide is better than dandelions. Spent car oil was poured on the ground to kill vegetation around the mail box. Quiet had to be filled with sound. Hawks were to be shot. Childless by choice was aberrant. Atheists were to be exorcised. All food should be cooked. Population control was an athima to the bible. We have come a long way but not far enough. 750 mountain gorillas are still not seen as more valuable than human reproduction or worth saving their habitat. Capitol punishment is still an option to study of the criminal brain. A woman's body is subject to government control. Men are forced to kill legally in something called war. And I can not legally grow my favorite medicinal plant CANNABIS.