ramonycajones

Well put; I think science is a never-ending quest to be confused about more complicated shit than we currently are.

Link for the lazy

Summer, he said.

It's just below junctive, and far below superjunctive.

I have an anecdote to offer: I spent a few months in China interacting with some very intelligent college students (some of whom ended up going to the U.S. for graduate school), and I didn't notice anything like this. They seemed to feel that the more propaganda-consuming, pro-communist type mentality was an older, dying one. Whether or not that feeling is true, it shows their opinion of it. Even if they're not super nationalistic though they're a very specific subset of Chinese people, but maybe that gives you some hope anyway :)