Ms Jenny was wondering why the Lanoliners for months had tried to make it look like she was badmouthing Mrs Hairy. The only one badmouthing Mrs Hairy was the Lanoliners…by proxy. They’d say bad things about Mrs Hairy, and then be adding Ms Jenny’s name to their schemes. It was so infantile, but clearly the Lanoliners thought it was working like a dream. Ms Jenny was having serious worries about the cognitive issues that obviously ran deep in Lanolinland. The repetitive behavior of the Lanoliners was part of that concern. Also the tendency to create alternative facts about situations where common knowledge stated otherwise.
Of course, this kind of behavior could be seen as rational in the light of a goal of destabilizing other countries, but a clinical perspective suggested the contrary.
“I think they’re just dumb!” Charles offered from the living room. “Would that be your hypothesis?” Ms Jenny laughed. “No, it would be the diagnosis!” Charles said without a hint of irony. “Why don’t you set up a contest between your countries? Charles suddenly said. “A contest?” Ms Jenny was surprised. “Yeah, a cognitive function contest. The people could undergo a set of cognitive tests, like a WAIS test or even culture fair FDR-tests? Charles was thinking out loud. “And whoever should be administering that pile of tests?” Ms Jenny shot his idea down. “Okay, let the countries pick one person representative of the population to be undergoing a test. The winning country gets to sprinkle the losing country with its fits for a whole year”, Charles said convincingly, “isn’t there a member of the Triple Nine Society in your cabinet?” Ms Jenny tried to remember. “Oh Lord, what’s her name again?”