[RebelWithARobot]

One thing i've noticed in FIRST is that many people believe that Dean Kamen invented first to inspire kids to be engineers, i believe this is only a first step to a much larger project. To set somewhat of a stage, my favorite quote from my favorite intellectual.
"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. " -- Noam Chomsky

I believe that many people, such as Mr. Teschler, is of the first type, and Dean Kamen is of the second. FIRST isn't around to turn engineers into celebrities. It's to transform a society that focuses on meaningless garbage like the Real World and America's Next Top Model, into one that will continue to grow and thrive as all cultures have since the beginning of time, through innovation! Without such a transformation our culture, our country, our world, will continue to degenerate into meaningless garbage.

The point isn't to put engineers on TV but to make people realize that while LeBron James and Tom Cruise may be wealthy, they aren't of any importance to anything substantial.

Another quote by Noam Chomsky
"In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, discovery and freedom and innovation are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival."