The New Commandments on the Barn Wall

Victor Davis Hanson   ..."8) Neanderthals need nerds. The cool gang banger who is knifed on Saturday night suddenly in extremis worships the surgeon who stiches up his liver and kidneys — a target whom he would otherwise have robbed earlier that Saturday afternoon. The thug who strips the copper wire from our streetlights nonetheless assumes a nerdish engineer will keep designing the wiring scheme that runs his car’s CD. For the good life to go on, each illiterate punk demands one corresponding graduate student at MIT to take care of him. When the former outnumber the latter, then civilization usually winds down."
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"I keep these commandments in mind daily. That way what would have seemed absurd in my youth is now as natural as the sun rising."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/02/16/96531