[Boatanchors] OT: "Easy" Ham Tickets

[David Stinson]

Societal degeneration is part of the natural cycle of
human civilizations. We are no more immortal than 
was Babylon or The Ottoman or British Empires.
Our "day in the sun" ends just as all before have done.
At this stage of societal degradation,
if Amateur Radio licenses required new applicants to
"know anything," there would be very few applicants
a year and Ham Radio would already be effectively dead.
Barring some cataclysm that off-lines the internet, 
the hobby is done as we know it in a couple of decades
anyway. I don't want to rush things along.

All that matters to regulators is money and numbers.
The requirements for a Ham ticket must follow 
the downward curve of Human Stupidification
as does everything else in a degenerating society- 
else numbers dwindle and the resources used by Ham Radio 
will be allocated to some other entity.  
If you want to keep the hobby alive as long as possible, 
accepting lesser recruits is unavoidable.

That being said- there is always a "cream" that floats to
the top, no matter how much "dregs" you have under it.
"While the hobby remainith," we can focus on that.