22% of Americans are functionally illiterate. 27% of Americans haven't read a book in the last twelve months. 29% of Americans can perform basic arithmetic but not computations involving two or more steps (I doubt they even have complete multiplication tables memorized). 40% of Americans are obese, with 32% overweight but not yet obese. 3.1% of US grown produce has illegal pesticide applications with nearly all of the remainder having legal pesticide applications. Pesticides pollute every stream and over 90% of wells in the US. Pesticides are not removed by typical water treatment processes. Commonly used paints, cleaners, and furniture all emit large quantities of VOCs including endocrine distrupters. The EU estimates that even in their more strict regulatory environment that endocrine distrupters alone cause 46-288 billion Euros in health related costs, disregarding other sorts of economic damage. There is no likbez coming, a 30+ billion dollar cottage industry has sprung up around systematic corruption, and the politicians are far more eager to appease these dollars than their electorate, even if the electorate cared about what had happened. The school house has been burnt down, the crops ravaged, the wells poisoned, the highest institutions of government are filled with rats. What is to be done?