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{{quote|''"Now, we're not trying to indoctrinate you. Well, we are, but we're not succeeding."''|'''Peter Sagal''', ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me (Radio)!|Wait Wait Don't Tell Me]]''}}

Not that this is always the fault of the writers. Any attempt to tackle serious subject matter honestly is problematic when the [[Moral Guardians]] are watching. This is often due to the fact that many attempts to deal with such serious subject matter will usually have said Guardians responding with outrage ''at its mere inclusion''! Yes, even if you are explicitly attempting to discourage it.

And so you often end up with children being warned about something dangerous -- butdangerous—but exactly ''why'' that something is dangerous is often never explained (which is why this trope can be a rich well of [[Paranoia Fuel]]). It's hard to tell kids "don't play with power tools because you might get killed" when [[Never Say "Die"|you can't say die]] (so expect to hear something like "very, very badly hurt"). Likewise, gun safety is an improbable issue to address when [[Family-Friendly Firearms|everyone packs a laser gun or something]]. Most infamously, [[Drugs Are Bad|drug abuse]] isn't easy to deal with when you can't quantify ''why'' you shouldn't use drugs<ref>Even, in some cases, to well-informed adults. Especially to well-informed adults.</ref> or when you can't even acknowledge that drugs exist.

Don't confuse this with a [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]] either, because while again there can be some crossover, Clueless Aesops ''are'' acceptable lessons -- atlessons—at least, they start out that way. It's just that the lesson is handled in such a compressed time, in a manner that is so laughable (or even offensive), or is presented in such an out-there or age-inappropriate show that it ultimately ends up warped. The typical reaction is [[Don't Shoot the Message]].

** [[Homestar Runner]] satirized this with typical aplomb in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131112215917/http://www.homestarrunner.com/cheatcommandos4.html Commandos In the Classroom]''.

{{quote| '''Troy:''' Now turn to the next problem. If you have three Pepsis and drink one, how much more refreshed are you? You, the redhead in the Chicago school system?<br />

'''Student:''' Pepsi?<br />

** A similar incident happened on a smaller scale for some rubber wristbands for red ribbon week. The slogan on the wristbands: I've got BETTER things to DO than DRUGS. Observant students quickly noticed the message in all caps. Despite the mistakes ([https://web.archive.org/web/20080625095600/http://www.thehawkeye.com/Story/Drug_Slogan_102507 and news coverage]) the exact same design is still in production.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfEG15CLTqo "Don't Drown Your Food"] is a PSA about not overloading your foods with high-calorie condiments, but the message is so vague that it makes it seem as if you shouldn't put any condiments on them at all.

* ''Little Dot'' had an issue featuring the title character's [[Long-Lost Uncle Aesop|Uncle]] [[Meaningful Name|Smoke]], who [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|likes to smoke]]. His obsession culminates with him taking a big smoke from a large pipe that's really a building decoration, after which a doctor tells him he has to stop smoking ... so he takes up skywriting! Because that's like smoking with a plane instead of your lungs! Seriously, [http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics143.html look at it].

* In the 80s there was an [[X -Men]] one-shot called ''Heroes for Hope'' in which the X-Men take on famine in Africa ... which, as everyone knows, is caused by an ancient demon that feeds on human misery. Oh well, at least Marvel gave the proceeds of the comic to charity.

** In retrospect, Mikhail Rasputin's quasi-introduction falls into this category by [[Fridge Logic]]-- Peter—Peter Corbeau compares his death to the real-life Apollo 1 fire... except that it was later revealed that Mikhail hadn't actually died, but had been sent to another dimension, gone insane, and come back as a supervillain. Addressing real-life disasters is hard in a comic that's so big on bringing people [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]].

* ''Serenity'' ([[Name's the Same|not]] [[Serenity (Film)|that one]]) - it was supposed to be a story of bad girl finding about the wonders of God's love and becoming better person in the process. The way it was handled makes most people see it as depressing story about lonely girl getting subjected to emotional harassment and manipulation by bunch of Christian zealots, until she turns into brainwashed drone, [[The Woobie|while all she wanted was to have friends]].

* ''[[The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (Film)|The Garbage Pail Kids Movie]]'' was an attempt to turn a line of trading cards -- whichcards—which were ''deliberately'' intended to be [[Gorn|violent]] [[Dead Baby Comedy|and thoroughly disgusting]] -- into—into an Aesop about [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?|appreciating those who look different]]. It worked out about as well as you'd expect throwing [[An Aesop]] into a film based on ''Garbage Pail Kids'' would be. Bonus points for its being a [[Broken Aesop]]: the titular characters are just as ugly on the inside (some have even [[Alternate Character Interpretation|interpreted the Kids as being incarnations of the Seven Deadly Sins]]) -- but hey, they sure sang a catchy song about teamwork, right?

* ''[[Reefer Madness (Film)|Reefer Madness]]'': The moral was (at one point) ''meant'' to be "marijuana is evil", but...

* ''[http://www.cracked[Cracked.com/blog/10-great-childrens-books-for-people-who-hate-their-children/ This] [[Cracked]].com'''s list of '[http://www.cracked.com/blog/10-great-childrens-books-for-people-who-hate-their-children/ Great Books for Traumatizing Children]' appears to be mostly made up of Clueless Aesops. They range from [[Anvilicious]] (''[[Latawnya the Naughty Horse Learns Toto Say No Toto Drugs]]'') to [[Unfortunate Implications|outright fucked up]] (''[[AlfiesAlfie's Home]]'') to Nazi propaganda (''The Poodle-Pug-Dachshund-Pinscher'').

* The [[Horatio Hornblower]] story "Hornblower and [[Have a Gay Old Time|the Man Who Felt Queer]]". The story features Horatio taking part in a sneak attack on a French ship. One of his crew, who earlier complained of feeling ill, has an epileptic fit. As the man -- unawareman—unaware of his surroundings -- startssurroundings—starts speaking loudly, Horatio strikes the man on the head with the tiller so they won't be found out by the enemy. Although the man's fate is left vague, it's clear that even if he isn't dead, he'll never play the piano again. Later on Horatio notes that the guilt of possibly killing the man is what gave him the courage to complete his task. Uh, what?

* On the surface, ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'' is a safe, clean, nonviolent fantasy serving as a cautionary tale about the dangers of premarital sex. Bella is certainly tempted, but Edward does the good Christian thing and pressures her into getting married first. This is all well and good, except it's coming from the same story that portrays [[Unfortunate Implications|an emotionally abusive ephebophile stalker]] as romantic. In the [[Real Life|real world]], teenage romances do not last forever, and marriage is the last thing that random charming attractive guy will pressure unsuspecting women into. The lesson is outright [[Broken Aesop|contradicted]] in the final installment, when the pregnancy [[Nightmare Fuel|nearly proves fatal]]. Marriage does not protect from STDs, nor does it physically or emotionally prepare one for pregnancy.<br /><br />And the first time they actually sleep together after their wedding, it's a violent event that leaves Bella injured and the bed destroyed. The Aesop here seems to be less, "Wait until marriage" and more, "Don't have sex ever."

* Perhaps the best example: The barely remembered (or perhaps nicely repressed) [[Disney Channel]] [[Very Special Episode|Special Presentation]], ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJg-jliyhXA Too Smart for Strangers]''. Seeing the residents of the Hundred Acre Wood dole out advice to the kiddies on how to avoid being kidnapped and molested is [[Nightmare Fuel|stunningly f___ed up in itself]]. If there is a list of characters who should never explain -- norexplain—nor even be ''aware'' of -- childof—child abuse, Pooh is easily at the top. But apparently, that wasn't bizarre enough for The [[Disney Channel]]; instead of using the animated characters, they chose to use the unspeakably terrifying costumed characters from the show ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fYCnZB_X7M Welcome To Pooh Corner]''. The whole thing seems coldly designed to scar a child's mind.

* A Canadian children's program once tried to tackle the serious subject of alcoholism and [[Berserk Button|Intermittent Explosive Disorder]]. That show was ''[[TodaysToday's Special]]''... And for maximum [[Nightmare Fuel|childhood destroying]] effect, the IED-prone alcoholic was played by Gerry Parkes, better known as none other than kindly old Doc from ''[[Fraggle Rock]]''!

* ''[[Kids Incorporated]]'' had an anti-drugs episode, an episode about homelessness, an episode about child abuse, and a surprisingly poignant episode about Kid's estranged older brother. Oh, and they each contained [[Mood Whiplash|the usual happy covers of popular songs and]] [[Imagine Spot|Imagine Spots]]s and were each aired in the middle of a week's worth of otherwise completely off-the-wall fantasy episodes with magic robots and such.

{{quote| "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}uLZptx6UQLk This]... is ''crack.''"}}

** There was another odd set of anti-drug ads where a girl high on weed is shown (through [[Uncanny Valley|icky special effects]]) to have melted into the couch. Doug Benson has a terrific deconstruction of how clueless this ad was in (of course) ''Super High Me'': if your reaction to an anti-drug PSA is [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|"Whatever they were smoking, I want some"]], it has failed.

* The ''[[Saved Byby the Bell]]'' episode about Jessie's caffeine pill addiction, legendary for its [[Narm]]. Indeed, "I'm so excited... I'm so ''scared!''" became a ''huge'' Memetic Mutation.

* ''[[Punky Brewster]]'''s anti-drug episode featuring the "Chicklets". The final scenes with P(SA)unky & friends in the middle of an anti-drug protest are [[Anvilicious|anviliciouslyanvilicious]]ly hilarious. The thing can be seen in all its glory [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcqgHmBXwUk here].

{{quote| "Dad, I had a feeling today."<br />

{{quote| "Remember to wash your hair only ''once'' every two weeks!" (Eww...)}}

* ''[[RifftraxRiff Trax]]'' has continued [[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000]]'s tradition on that score, most notably with their commentary on the short ''Drugs Are Like That'', a parade of dubious and even contradictory metaphors for drugs. At different points in the short, for example, habitual behavior (such as hair twirling) and spontaneity (represented by making a minor change to a Lego-block machine) both become drug-use analogues.

* The Truth's line of anti-tobacco PSAs are often well written, but one is an [[Egregious]] case of [[Did Not Do the Research]], where they try to prove tobacco companies were aiming their products at kids because cigarettes were shown in ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'' -- because—because clearly a movie featuring Muppets can only be for kids. ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'' was released in 1979, when [[Jim Henson]] was out to prove puppets could appeal to ''older'' audiences and a film didn't need an R rating to be made for adults.

* The well-intentioned episode on ''[[Star Trek: the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek theThe Next Generation]]'' in which a member of a race of asexual women and Riker fall in love. As Cracked.com put it: "The episode's message ends up completely garbled. Intended as a condemnation of homophobia, the episode instead comes off as the story of one woman's brave quest for cock in the face of lesbian tyranny."

** Also their choice for all the 'asexual' aliens to be played by women, because you know it wouldn't do for Riker's [[Love Interest]] to look like a man. (Okay, it ''is'' [[Shown Their Work|scientifically accurate]] because the only vertebrates we know of who can [[wikipedia:Parthenogenesis|reproduce asexually]] are [[One-Gender Race|all female]]. Still...)

**** Could also be considered [[Completely Missing the Point]] by some viewers because the episodes was ''supposed'' to have the "straight" metaphor character be oppressed by the "gay" metaphor characters, as part of a common ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' theme of presenting [[Fantastic Aesop|Fantastic Aesops]]s and switching situations around to make a point. Although the creators certainly didn't help themselves out by making the [[Romantic Plot Tumor|woman's love for Riker more important than her right to determine her own gender]].

** "Symbiosis", the anti-drug episode. The ''Enterprise'' rescues some of the crew and a couple of barrels of cargo, considered more important than crew by those who weren't rescued, on a ship going between two planets in a system that has only interplanetary travel and is losing that. Planet #1 is supplying a drug to planet #2 that is an addictive cure for a plague that has, Dr. Crusher discovers, been wiped out centuries ago. This is the sole industry of Planet #1 -- they don't even have their own ships -- butships—but only Planet #2 uses the drug. Everyone stops the Enterprise from seizing the drugs by citing the Prime Directive. Because of this, Picard retracts an offer to send parts for fixing the ships to Planet #2 because of the Prime Directive.

* ''[[Diffrent Strokes|Diff'rent Strokes]]'' decided to tackle sexual predators in the two-parter "The Bicycle Man". In the story, [[Gary Coleman|Arnold]] wants a bicycle. After becoming friends with Mr. Horton, the owner of the bicycle shop, over part one, he, and his friend [[Long-Lost Uncle Aesop|Dudley]] (''Diff'rent Strokes''' recurring [[Very Special Episode]] scapegoat), start spending time with Horton in the back room where he lives. After [[Squick|riding on Mr. Horton's back]] and playing "Neptune, God of the Sea," Horton offers them some alcohol (which only makes Arnold worried that he might be caught with it on his breath) and sits them down to watch some cartoons. "That mouse just lost his drawers! [audience laughter]" Yeah, so after enjoying a nice X-rated cartoon, Arnold is uncomfortable enough to leave. Dudley wants to stay, and Arnold goes home. After letting slip what happened, Mr. Drummond calls the police. They arrive right as Horton is about to... uh... begin. Dudley appears on screen drugged with tranquilizers and shirtless. Then they have a couch conversation about how important it is to tell an adult about such things. While this is admittedly far more direct and open than the "bad touch" [[PSA|PSAs]]s of the 90s, there is laughter throughout the episodes right up to when Mr. Drummond calls the police. Yes, even during the set-up to the molestation. That must have been the most awkward studio audience ever.

** [[Harsher in Hindsight]] considering Todd Bridges came out later saying he was repeatedly molested during the show's run.

* Even ''[[Police, Camera, Action!]]'' is not invulnerable to this trope. In fact, possibly more so than ''[[Hannah Montana]]''.

* Parodied by ''[[The Goodies (TV)|The Goodies]]'' with their Mary Whitehouse expy-approved sex education film, which avoids any mention of anything related to sex:

{{quote| '''Narrator:''' This is a man. And this isn't.}}

** Gambling is bad? Only if you haven't rigged the results for yourself (appears in numerous episodes).

* [[Walker, Texas Ranger|"Walker told me I have AIDS."]]

* Any children's show where a main character or actor dies either avoids the issue entirely, [[The Other Darrin|casts someone else to take their place]], or say they "[[Character Outlives Actor|moved away]]"... except for the most notable [[Averted Trope|aversion]]: The death of Mr. Hooper (Will Lee) on ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]''.

* [http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/arts/theater/cirque-du-soleil-michael-jackson-immortal-world-tour-review This review] of ''[[Michael Jackson: theThe IMMORTALImmortal World Tour]]'', the [[Cirque Du Soleil]] tribute to the musician, calls out the "They Don't Care About Us" number for presenting one of these in the below quote. (Later in the review, the critic also points out that the intended anti-greed message is undermined by the fact that the show probably wouldn't exist if there weren't tons of money to be made off of Jackson's memory.) Keep in mind that this show also features Bubbles the chimp as a character and a production number with a giant sequined glove dancing around, among other things.

{{quote| During [the number] dancing robots appear with LED breastplates that first flash dollar signs amidst videos of urban and international violence, then display hearts as Mother Teresa appears onscreen to feed starving children. The number was originally designed for Jackson's This Is It shows (performances that were preempted by the artist's demise), so Cirque can't entirely be blamed for its unseemly exploitation of human suffering for commercial entertainment. Of course Jackson would have seen himself as raising awareness, and Cirque doubtless think the same thing about the pro-Gaia number [[Earth Song]] that unfolds as 30,000 people sip from souvenir plastic cups.}}

* The Tales series in general, and ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'' specifically, are chock full of [[Narm Charm]]: it ranges from overly-dramatic to flat-out-bizarre, but still manages to be awesome despite that.

** ''[[Tales of Vesperia (Video Game)|Tales of Vesperia]]'' has some interesting things to say about justice that get completely lost due to the game's [[Black and White Morality]]. {{spoiler|[[Vigilante Man|Yuri]] murders Ragou and Cumore, two [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]]s. Sodia later attempts to kill Yuri because she thinks of him as a criminal. This is supposed to question Yuri's actions and show that justice is sometimes a very subjective thing. Problem is, unlike Ragou and Cumore, Yuri does not fap to the screams of dying children but is a clearly heroic character. So the whole thing just makes Sodia come off as a dangerous psychopath trying to [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]. The justice plot is later dropped entirely for a [[Green Aesop]] that doesn't make much more sense.}}

* The moral they try to get across in ''[[IMI.M. Meen]]'' is that you should read more. What we get is more like "Never ''ever'' touch a book or else that book might suck you into a horrible labyrinth and and an evil man will torture you like some kind of sadistic pedophile".

* [[Ryu ga Gotoku (Video Game)|Yakuza]] 4 has a sidequest where orphaned kids who were separated from their illegal immigrant parents when said parents were deported are spraying graffiti to express their hate for Japan. Tanimura and Zhao pull them aside for an important lesson: Is it the fault of the clearly flawed process for dealing with illegal immigrants? Nope. Is it the fault of the hostile, zero-tolerance mentality that the Japanese people have towards illegal immigrants? Nope. Is it their parent's fault for thoughtlessly putting themselves at risk for this situation to begin with? Nope. IT'S NO ONE'S FAULT! SO JUST STICK YOUR NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE AND FORGET ALL ABOUT IT! Never mind the kids who will fall victim to the same situation that you're in someday, and that you, as a casualty, are in the perfect position to be an activist.

* This trope was brutally satirized in ''[[The Onion]]'' article "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100225054036/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38286 Talking To Your Child About The WTC Attack]", which encouraged parents to give a no-holds barred explanation of the world history leading up to the World Trade Tower attacks in order to answer why this bad scary thing happened (serious [[Tear Jerker]] warning). Although given that the material is fairly obscure even among adults who try to keep with the news, the real moral might have been "try hard to understand world history, and don't believe the simplified explanations we have to tell our kids."

* Poked fun at by [[The Cinema Snob (Web Video)|The Cinema Snob]] in his review of "Rock: It's Your Decision". The reformed, ex-rock-and-roll-fan protagonist preaches to a group of kids about what he saw at a rock concert once: The people listening weren't just sitting quietly and listening to the music! They were ''getting up and dancing!'' The music was ''controlling'' them! The Snob snarks, "This is an emotional response, like crying when you're sad. This, too, is sinful, and should be suppressed."

* There was an animated story in ''[[Yo Gabba Gabba!]]'' about anthropomorphized drops of water and oil who live in towns across from one another. They are separated by a line in the middle of a road and they are not allowed to mix with one another. Now, the story looks like it's heading towards a [[Green Aesop]] when an oil drop runs across the road and collides with a water drop. But the story focuses on how together they make a pretty rainbow. And then all the oil and water drops start playing together. The message was ''supposed'' to be "it's wonderful when people who are different play together", but unfortunately children will probably interpret it as "go ahead and pour oil in the sink/bathtub/etc. to make pretty rainbows".

* ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' in general, since its [[Dead Baby Comedy]] status makes taking any Aesop it offers seriously near-impossible, especially when it comes to religion and gay rights.

** It gets bad when they introduce a character that's pretty much every offensive gay stereotype rolled into one, and [[Seth MacfarlaneMacFarlane]] goes on record saying that the gay community is intended to ''identify'' with him. Or how they shove the "Being gay is not a choice" aesop in an episode where ''Peter is '''made''' gay through genetic research!''

* The (in)famous episode of ''[[Arthur (Animationanimation)|Arthur]]'' called "Arthur's Big Hit." Since it was discussed many times before, here's a summary: the episode was supposed to teach us a good moral like "Violence won't solve your problems"; instead, the story went out of its way to make Arthur the bad guy.

** What makes it even worse is that D.W. never got punished. Arthur spent an entire week making a model plane, and DW not only ruins the wet paint, then blames it on Arthur, but she then throws his plane out the window, after he specifically told her not to touch it. She's not even sorry that it broke, blaming the plane for being defective because it didn't fly. Arthur hits D.W. in retribution, but gets all the blame.

*** From what we've seen. [[Unreliable Narrator|Her punishment could have happened off-screen.]]

* [[Anvilicious]] as it could be at times, ''[[Captain Planet]]'' sometimes went in over its head. It gave us the following stellar examples, some of which can be viewed via [https://web.archive.org/web/20130709012753/http://www.uproxx.com/feature/2010/09/5-weird-captain-planet-episodes-you-probably-dont-remember/ list of uncomfortable "Captain Planet" episodes]:

** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBfkI51sVyc Teers In the Hood]" for the [[Heroes (TV series)|waffles!]]

{{quote| '''Todd:''' Man, AIDS stinks!}}

* The infamous Saturday morning special ''[[Cartoon All -Stars to Thethe Rescue]]'' tried to deal with the dangers of marijuana -- bymarijuana—by wasting a perfectly good [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] and having beloved children's cartoon characters spew quaint little platitudes about how drugs are bad. And marijuana users are apparently angry, semi-violent hoodlums a la ''[[Reefer Madness (Film)|Reefer Madness]]''. When that cartoon was broadcast in prime time in Italy, it was preceded by an "insanely long" and "insanely boring" message by the then-Prime Minister.

** Y'know, some of those very cartoon characters being aware of drugs [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|explains WAY too much.]]

* An episode of the ''[[Double Dragon (Animationanimation)|Double Dragon]]'' cartoon involved a kid obsessed with video games. He was taught that life is [[This Is Reality|not a video game]]... by a pair of magically-super-powered crime-fighters who summon dragons and shoot fire and stuff... in '''a show based off a video game.'''

* The [[Classic Disney Shorts|Classic Disney Short]] "[[Donald Duck|Donald's]] [[Blatant Lies|Happy Birthday]]" (1949) was about Huey, Dewey and Louie wanting to buy Donald a birthday present but Donald insists that the nephews save money. Once they get the money, they buy Donald a box of cigars. Donald jumps to a conclusion and thinks they want to start smoking, so he forces them to smoke the entire box only to later find out the cigars were meant for him. Here, the nephews are thinking of their uncle and working hard for the money, while Donald wants the boys to save money and not smoke, but the problem is, Donald is supposed to be seen as the bad guy--heguy—he becomes aware he's a smoker by forcing the nephews to smoke when they get punished for being good? You're left with a very screwed-up morality tale, and the disturbing ending doesn't help.

*** Donald doesn't even have to have any objections to smoking to be upset at the prospect of his nephews doing it. Keep in mind, they're children. The vast majority of parents drink, but it certainly wouldn't be hypocritical of them to get upset that their 11 year old is drinking.

*** You know, in 1949 no one really though smoking was bad. Just saying.

* [[In -Universe]] example from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': In the episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E21 Over a Barrel|"Over A Barrel"]], Pinkie Pie's song about sharing is so annoying, [[Stop Helping Me!|it makes]] [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|things worse]].

* Also happens [[In -Universe]] in ''[[South Park]]'', when the school decides they need to teach the kids about safer sex -- withoutsex—without actually talking about sex. So they just tell the kids that boys always need to wear condoms, or else they might get girls pregnant, and leave it at that. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* According to ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130630013653/http://www.everythingisterrible.com/2012/02/drug-avengers.html Drug Avengers]'', an obscure and [[Deranged Animation|very weird]] educational cartoon recently exhumed by ''[[Everything Is Terrible]]'', the reason [[Space Whale Aesop|Earth will not be able to join the Galactic Federation in the future]] is because we do too many drugs. Yup.