What year is it?

Wow. Turkmenistan is banning beards? Haven’t leaders learned anything? Look around! Fully grown adults resent this sort of thing, and will resent the makers of such laws. Want to foster unrest? Be sure to tell your people how to shave. Or dress. Or talk. If people can’t feel in control of the trivial parts of their life, they quickly become cranky. With crap like this, might Turkmenistan be on its way to being the next messy middle-east problem?