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Old 03-22-2015, 07:30 AM   #97
Griff
still says videotape
 
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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
Yes exactly I have been repeating this notion over the telegraph all day but nobody takes notice!

The IQ of the human race has been rising. Three points per decade in the US, for the last century.

And we only just now gave it the Internet, so, unless we really fuck things up, this trend will continue for a while. Most people aren't on line yet; and so, are unaware, and yet to experience their deep and lasting outrage and anger at me for my ideas.
The fly in (y)our ointment would seem to be governing ourselves in the mean-time. We seem to be electing a lot of controlling mother-fuckers who'd like to impose their pre-human values on others. Our fascination with war to teach democratic values to the unenlightened seems counter-productive unless we can bomb them with high speed internet, something we still haven't bombed rural America with.
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