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Uh oh, two independent thought alarms in one day. The children are overstimulated. Willie remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms.
— Skinner · The Simpsons
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An editorial interpretation.
Skinner treats a couple of independent thoughts as a crisis in need of tidying. His fix is to take the colored chalk away, as though color were what overstimulated the children. It's funny because the school's answer to curiosity is to make everything plainer.
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