outside-the-box

Do you think mass fluoridation could have a role in people losing their ability and will to critically examine reality? Certainly, school uses pavlovian conditioning to punish kids for free thinking and reward them for kissing ass and regurgitating.

QuestionEverything

I can cripple your cognitive thinking ability by simply making you believe in something false. Cognitive dissonance. Makes it MUCH easier to control people. All you need is a source of 'news' that someone trusts: inject falsehood: done.

Thats the plan.

Doesn't work on about 10% of population, especially lefties.

madhatter67

Try to take care of your pineal gland...that's your aerial to the rest of the universe!

lord_nougat

It's those god damned flat earthers!

ardvarcus

Most people lack imagination. That's the reality we deal with. I agree with you, nothing is better than science fiction (the book kind, not the movie kind) for stretching that imagination with multiple future scenarios. But SF has aways been a genre market, and always will be.

Yokoke

Creativity, imagination I see many children losing it in early elementary ages and what does remain stays in that closet with many other fears of self expression. Interesting thread to think about, thank you.

B3bomber

Of course. School is designed to stamp that out. Need a bio-mechanical robot to work those machines like the good factory component they are just so the rich make another penny.

heygeorge

This is among your finest posts.


If you could take a pill and it would give you superhuman intelligence, would you do it? If so, why? If not, why not?