<p>^^ Here’s the problem: if you pontificate long enough and often enough on a forum you have no connection to, you eventually run up an unpaid bill of asides, anecdotes, aphorisms, and observations too big to answer all in one post. It is with the greatest difficulty that I limit myself to just one of your throwaway points:</p>
<p>I don’t know where you live or how often you actually set foot in New York City, but if you haven’t lately, you may find your idea of “the inner city” severely challenged, both intellectually and psychologically. Go to the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues in Downtown Brooklyn and notice the number of kids with Wesleyan, Brown and Swarthmore swag; I would say, fully a third of the pedestrians observed during a recent visit were white people in their twenties and thirties - some of them pushing baby strollers.</p>
<p>They were most emphatically not all Mormons.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is that there are very few places left in the inner city where poor people and middle-class people do not mingle, your antiquated notions of prudence, notwithstanding.</p>