I do usually resist grand popular bandwagons that are pushed by the mass media and accepted by almost everyone around me, Amos. ;-D No doubt about it. The reason I resist them is because they are usually based not so much on independent thinking in most cases, but upon many sheep willingly following the latest popular trend, the latest officially dispensed orthodoxy, just because it IS the latest trend and the apparently ruling orthodoxy. They feel certain it must be right, because all their peers seem to think so too, and the media has told them so.

I have my doubts. I have a natural born resistance toward following common popular trends of all kinds. I question them, and I have always done so.

I was, for instance, the only kid in my Sunday school class who did not believe the Bible stories from day 1. I went on not believing them. The others all just accepted what they were told. I complained about it to my Mother and she said I didn't have to go to Sunday school anymore, and that was the end of that.

I was one of the very few kids in my classes in a small New York country town who totally opposed the US presence in Vietnam from Day 1. Most people there supported it wholeheartedly.

I was the first kid I knew who stopped believing in Santa Claus.

You will have to admit that my judgement was pretty good in those 3 cases.... ;-)

Well, I might be onto something with my unconventional views on the current global warming craze too. Maybe. You're going to have to wait and see if I am, and that will take some time.