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Pascal, please keep on with these vital introductions of truthtellers so we can share. This seems apropos of the audience side of media,

"In a country which is moving downhill, the fraction of stupid people is still equal to σ;

however in the remaining population one notices among those in power an alarming

proliferation of the bandits with overtones of stupidity . . . and among those not in power an equally alarming growth in the number of helpless individuals . . . Such change in the composition of the non-stupid population inevitably strengthens the destructive power of the σ fraction and makes decline a certainty. And the country goes to Hell.

https://ia903402.us.archive.org/17/items/01-miscellaneous-musings/1970-00-00_The%20Basic%20Law%20of%20Human%20Stupidity.pdf

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