I was just reading Paul's blog and one comment about Gay Marriage rights struck a chord. No, not that kind of chord, I mean it got me thinking about one of the things I simultaneously like and dislike about the US: Anything, and I mean anything, you want changed or introduced into your society as a 'norm' can be included if enough people believe in it. There was a time when even homosexuality was a big taboo. Still is here (good old land of the pure), of course, but now its become something commonplace in the US, which is good for the minorities that are persecuted. Go to the US, start a movement, make some noise, and in about 10-20 years, whatever it is you could not do before is so common place that it won't even make your granny bat an eyelash. The obvious downside, of course, is that the majority could be idiots with their own agendas and their own poster boy, el presidente, and they could cause a whole lot of harm to innocent people and this could become the new norm. Just as I'm sure gay marriage will become one of the norms in the US in about ten years or less, I'm sure that somewhere out there there's an extremist looking for a cause.