[Boatanchors] OT: "Easy" Ham Tickets

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

The fact that scum also rises to the top is what leads to David's first statement! 
   
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> From: arc5 at ix.netcom.com
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 11:27:25 -0600
> Subject: [Boatanchors] OT: "Easy" Ham Tickets
> 
> 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.