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 Valid point. Something I think about often is the fact that the US had one of the highest education standards on earth until the Vietnam war when young people were vehemently and vocally opposed to govt actions, and this was the exact point point in history when our education standards started to nosedive. Surely no accident there, and probably this intentional nerf’ing of education has had probably the biggest impact of anything to date.. maybe the devices are just a helpful tool to maintain the status quo at this point.. 
 That is a major coincidence. You’re probably onto something there.

When was fluoride pushed into public water systems? 
 Honestly much later than I expected! I was gonna guess 1971 haha (sauce Wikipedia so take with a grain of 🧂) says later in the article the US made it a standard in 2012 https://image.nostr.build/162ebc2ddb2745608f4a2409ed3cbc4ada96b09a72b2a70b11dac21829fab976.jpg  
 Interesting. There’s also something to driving everybody to bottled & filtered water.

Wonder what’s worse: fluoride in water or water stripped of all minerals…