Dr. Strangelove: "I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration ... to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."
July 15, 2011 7:28 AM Subscribe
Dr. Fluoride: He said the Soviets worked a deal where they not only added fluoride to the water supply through various water companies but put another ingredient that over time would make us dumber. Slowly it would dumb us down year after year, and in that way the USSR would be able to defeat us. Make us too dumb to know better. A Cold War technique unrivalled in the annals of dirty tricks.
"Year after year you can track the results if you so chose. Test scores have steadily fallen among students. The level of debate has collapsed. No one can debate an issue anymore with ANY clarity. The media muddles stories, filled with inaccuracies, and Congress is incapable of any logic whatsoever. But the Soviets were methodical; they put a higher dose of the dumbing-down drug in Washington. That is blatantly apparent."
This post was deleted for the following reason: I do love Barry Levinson but single link HuffPo crazyperson rant seems a little thin and not very well-liked here. I am sorry, perhaps tomorrow will be a better day. -- jessamyn
Well that's a hilariously embarassing lesson to not comment based solely on what appears on the first page.
[need coffee]
posted by graphnerd at 7:31 AM on July 15, 2011 [1 favorite]
[need coffee]
posted by graphnerd at 7:31 AM on July 15, 2011 [1 favorite]
This certainly dovetails nicely with the post below.
posted by TedW at 7:34 AM on July 15, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by TedW at 7:34 AM on July 15, 2011 [2 favorites]
The trick of course is that people are not getting stupider and more ignorant, it's just hard to believe that they've always been as stupid and ignorant as they (we) are now.
posted by grobstein at 7:37 AM on July 15, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by grobstein at 7:37 AM on July 15, 2011 [3 favorites]
I never could figure out what was so precious about bodily fluids. The older I get the more of them there seem to be.
posted by loquacious at 7:37 AM on July 15, 2011 [6 favorites]
posted by loquacious at 7:37 AM on July 15, 2011 [6 favorites]
I just want to know what is THE source of THE water supply.
The medium-sized town I live in has three separate water districts, each with its own wellfield. Also, I filter the drinking water.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 7:38 AM on July 15, 2011
The medium-sized town I live in has three separate water districts, each with its own wellfield. Also, I filter the drinking water.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 7:38 AM on July 15, 2011
As far as I can tell, this is a single fictional anecdote by a screenwriter blogging from the pages of the HuffPo. Is there anything else to this or am I missing something?
posted by Poet_Lariat at 7:39 AM on July 15, 2011
posted by Poet_Lariat at 7:39 AM on July 15, 2011
You're missing the Rod Serling introduction.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 7:40 AM on July 15, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by Kirth Gerson at 7:40 AM on July 15, 2011 [2 favorites]
The older I get the more of them there seem to be.
And when you're young you tend to spend them like they're Confederate currency.
posted by middleclasstool at 7:42 AM on July 15, 2011
And when you're young you tend to spend them like they're Confederate currency.
posted by middleclasstool at 7:42 AM on July 15, 2011
From the comments:
We are MEDICATING the ENTIRE POPULATION... even infants and old people without teeth
Ah, MEDICINE. Going right past the teeth, breaking through the mouth/lips barrier and causing no end of problems.
posted by chambers at 7:52 AM on July 15, 2011
We are MEDICATING the ENTIRE POPULATION... even infants and old people without teeth
Ah, MEDICINE. Going right past the teeth, breaking through the mouth/lips barrier and causing no end of problems.
posted by chambers at 7:52 AM on July 15, 2011
No, water-adulteration is crazy-talk, I mean, how could that be?
No, the truth is that the US is just falling apart as our economy crumbles, evangelicals take control, education becomes devalued, class warfare simmering just below a boil, medical care at 2nd- or 3rd-world standards for most people -- all because of everyone satisfying their own self-interests at the expense of their neighbors.
Huh....the more I think about it, the more I prefer the fantasy world. Same results, but at least I can have the pleasure of blaming somebody else.
posted by AzraelBrown at 7:56 AM on July 15, 2011 [1 favorite]
No, the truth is that the US is just falling apart as our economy crumbles, evangelicals take control, education becomes devalued, class warfare simmering just below a boil, medical care at 2nd- or 3rd-world standards for most people -- all because of everyone satisfying their own self-interests at the expense of their neighbors.
Huh....the more I think about it, the more I prefer the fantasy world. Same results, but at least I can have the pleasure of blaming somebody else.
posted by AzraelBrown at 7:56 AM on July 15, 2011 [1 favorite]
Purity of essence, Mandrake.
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 8:02 AM on July 15, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 8:02 AM on July 15, 2011 [1 favorite]
I have been waiting to see the mythical red flash. I am hoping this is my chance.
posted by norm at 8:11 AM on July 15, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by norm at 8:11 AM on July 15, 2011 [1 favorite]
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