Mike:
> Making the general public smarter is not in the best interest of
> government, who wants to keep us fat dumb and (relatively) happy
> (read: distracted).
>
> If we're not making people smarter with currently available resources,
> why would we invest in research to discover expensive new technologies
> to make people smarter?  We need that money to invest in research for
> expensive new technologies to allow people to be lazier.


You are thinking mostly about the USA, it seems.

I was thinking mostly about the People's Republic of China.

-- Ben G

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