Science isn't all that scary, nor that hard to learn. All you need is a bit of will and the ability to pay attention. Many people could become scientists if they wanted to - science is a way of thinking, a process of reasoning that can be taught, but rarely is.
Read Catch-22 if you ever get the chance. Maybe you've read it already. Don't bother with the rest of Heller's books - they're no where near as good.
Never be afraid of change or of different situations. Nothing remains static and unchanging forever - everything changes and always will. You need to keep ahead, to adapt, to make the best of the situation you find yourself in. Don't be alarmed if you feel society is moving away from you - it's constantly moving and always has been. Don't give into the fear of reactionaries, who chase an impossible dream of staying in the past. You can never stay in the past. Humans need to accept this. Look at history - it's constantly shifting, constantly changing. Even religions change over the course of centuries.
It's important to realize that all nations will abuse their power. People say the US is bad, and they've done so truly horrible things in the past (operation Ajax, for example), but KEEP IN MIND that virtually every single other country would do the same. It doesn't make it right, but people need to learn that they can't separate things into black/white categories. As bad as Israel and the US are to the Palestinians, HAMAS, Hezbollah and Iran are just as bad, probably even worse. As bad as capitalism can be, communism has failed even more spectacularly. As bad as the current world order is, always keep in mind how much worse it could get.
On another note, the claim that Obama is a Muslim or a terrorist is insane. Not that there's anything wrong with being a Muslim, but the fact remains that Obama is NOT a muslim. How do we know this:
1) Remember in 2008 about that controversy involving Obama's PASTOR, one REVEREND Wright? The news reported at that time that Obama had been attending that church for years and years.
2) You're saying to me that some hicks in Alabama could stumble across the fact that Obama is a Muslim Terrorist, while the NSA, FBI, CIA and all the world's intelligence agencies never picked up on it? Even when the Bush administration was in charge? If these Birther/Muslim claims had ANY weight to them at all, why didn't the Republican party use it during the 08 campaign?
3) Newspaper records dating back from the 60's document Obama's birth in Hawaii. Unless you're some crazed conspiracy nut who believes that the illuminati are controlling everything behind the scenes with the lizard people who planted the evidence over 49 YEARS AGO, that's compelling proof that Obama is a US citizen.
If 21% of US americans believe that some rednecks in Alabama could find out that Obama is a Kenyan Muslim, while all the intelligence services in the world couldn't find that out, then 21% of the US population has clearly been drinking far too much alcohol.