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Prohibition of not being dumberer.

Prohibition of not being dumberer.

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“Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.”
~Will Rogers

Telling Americans what not to do is a path to inevitable do doing. Tell them to become dumberer and we're sure to breed genius on a level unparalleled in human history. What do you think?

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Since you asked, if you get any "dumberer" someone will have to water you once a week

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Originally posted by Scriabin
Since you asked, if you get any "dumberer" someone will have to water you once a week
Hey, last I heard you had left in a huff. Decided to stay and kick us around some more eh?

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Originally posted by Hand of Hecate
“Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.”
~Will Rogers

Telling Americans what not to do is a path to inevitable do doing. Tell them to become dumberer and we're sure to breed genius on a level unparalleled in human history. What do you think?
also true for any human, not just americans.

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Originally posted by Sleepyguy
Hey, last I heard you had left in a huff. Decided to stay and kick us around some more eh?
had some spare time -- a brief respite before the flood of paper to review ensues.

kick you around? hardly.

just having fun

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Originally posted by Hand of Hecate
“Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.”
~Will Rogers

Telling Americans what not to do is a path to inevitable do doing. Tell them to become dumberer and we're sure to breed genius on a level unparalleled in human history. What do you think?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

Idiocracy is a 2006 American dark comedy directed by Mike Judge, and starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph. The two main characters are taken into a top-secret military hibernation experiment that goes awry, and they awaken 500 years in the future. They discover that the world has degenerated into a dystopia where advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism run rampant and dysgenic pressure has resulted in a uniformly stupid human society.

Despite its lack of a major theatrical release, the film has achieved something of a cult following because of its satire of the “dumbing down” of contemporary society and the breakdown of individual responsibility and consequences.

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Originally posted by Hand of Hecate
“Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.”
~Will Rogers

Telling Americans what not to do is a path to inevitable do doing. Tell them to become dumberer and we're sure to breed genius on a level unparalleled in human history. What do you think?
The government totally befuddles the mind with practically EVERY THING it does. 99.9% of decisions in Washington are 99.9% stupid.

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Originally posted by dystoniac
The government totally befuddles the mind with practically EVERY THING it does. 99.9% of decisions in Washington are 99.9% stupid.
And what's more, 97.5% of their statistics are plucked out of thin air and used to exaggerate in 98.2% of cases.

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Originally posted by FMF
And what's more, 97.5% of their statistics are plucked out of thin air and used to exaggerate in 98.2% of cases.
I think you are 42.9% correct there.