It's been a crazy week and there's a loom on the horizon

"I feel dumber."

"Maybe you are. Maybe I took some of your smort and gave you some of my dumb."

"What if there was an allotted amount of smart in the world?"

"Whoa! So everytime someone dies, someone gets smarter?"

"Yeah! So that would mean we're immensely dumber than people were 300 years ago..."

"And Adam would have been brilliant. He could tell you what the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow would be--both African and European."

"'How many insects were there in the top foot of my yard last September 18, at 2:34 PM?' 'Well, I wasn't there, but, judging by the current wind speed, and the chemical makeup of the smoothie I had at lunch, 8,124,930 and three eighths. There were some unfinished bug meals.'"

"This seems to be an argument for genocide. Kill everyone, and you get uber smartness. Kinda like 'The One.'"

"What if it worked with animals and plants too? If you killed every bush in the world, except one, the remaining bush would become sentient!"

"It's like evolution, except opposite. The survivors become fittest."

Maybe the reason our society is progressing despite the population growth is because of aliens. As alien civilizations die out, we would inherit their grey matter. It's like an ant farm."