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On Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:16:34 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2025-09-07, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
> 
>>    IQ improvement ? Have doubts. Anything over 180 seems to go insane.
> 
> I don't think we have to worry about that.  We're working so hard to
> dumb people down that the median IQ is falling below the level needed
> for democracy to work.  And then the authoritarians will take over and
> nobody will have to think about anything.  For that matter, nobody had
> better think about anything.

I think we hit that level some time ago. The problem I have with 
libertarian solutions is they require reasonably intelligent people. What 
to do with the other 80%?  That's when I start swinging to the opposite 
pole of the big horseshoe magnet.