mentioned on npr, during a {partial-} tick-off of What's Broken in the dis-US, has been, all along. Duh.

Given the probabilities.. pre- Menace final-meltdown: just try to imagine which. sort. of. Madness shall be dumped upon the body-politic, Next?
If you Can
[Then: burn it; we don't need no more Accurate pix of DOOM-via-Dunce, right?]

As there is no S.A.T.--grade TEST! mandatory before being-allowed-to ascend to US-CIEIO, we gets (as most often more obvious: re a certain former-'Party')
the cuthless, the ethics-free, the barren in reading skills and Imagination (along with the Certainty-mindset) of calibre ~Shrub.

Forced-reading of books wouldn't work at all, at this Late-stage-desire for seppuku in such folk; I vote Sterilization.
(Alas too: 'twas, I think because of JFK's charisma?) that, even later-on:
Obvious Ignorance of ∑ about Vietnam went Zooom, then-again! re Afghanistan, Iraq, Grenada! et al.

We are smug unTeachables. Over & Out.

(If 'they' let him live this long..) who Knoze? what FB-Dark-caverns he bloviates within, now;
he hadn't the wits ever to say-to-self: Shut. Up.
And that's usually a life-long perdition--even worse than Uniixers using Vi (was it?)--as a penance.