Conundra abound this Solstice:

All are ~aware of the death-toll--rivaling or exceeding the common Murican fav forms of seppuku--of the transistor-enhanced morphine-clones ... now in many bloodstreams-near-You. Some in that car, weaving a bit and coming atcha on the two-lane(?)

SO then: beginning with that familiar analytical phrase from Karl re "opiate of the masses":
We See the effects of tele-vangelicals, upon rhyme, Reason and Lemming-dom. Pretty much in accord with Karl's deductions from way-back
(Did I mention that I have now, via friend: what may be the First-English Ed.s of both Das Kapital and er, Mein Drumpf Kampff?)

Obvious query then:
here we have the metaphorical AND the clinically-Actual forms of "addictions which corrupt.." (or just maybe--in susceptible individuals--eliminate? The Reasoning Process in the infected/affected.)

SO then, In Combination: does the Corruption enhance as the square², the cube³ ... or maybe the ^13th-Power^ ??
(as one attempts to put numbers on the Destruction seen in just one year of a Know-nothing-in-Chief bringing new Meanings to running amok?)

tl;dr: is it reasonable to conflate fecklessness, gullibility/aka mental-laziness and the Murican anti-intellectualism as a modifier for the (equally inappropriate concept of)
"I.Q." ? as our edjaKayshunal Institutions attempt to bring aboard the still-educable? Careful philosophy students Want. To. fucking-Know. ... y'know?

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This query can entertain evenings, on those long-winter icy cave-walls as we gather to see the shadows projected by the unKnown-Sun: on the same walls
(like in that famous earlier Cosmic-model.)