http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
Idiocracy is a 2006 American film, a satirical science fiction comedy, directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Terry Crews.The film tells the story of two ordinary people taken into a top-secret military hibernation experiment to awaken in a dystopia wherein advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism run rampant and dysgenic pressure has resulted in a uniformly stupid human society devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, and coherent notions of justice and human rights.
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Alternet, Soros, and OW represent, for me, the kind of totalitarianism that supported Stalin, and the mass killings of his own people.Basically, its a kind of tribalism that invokes, not the higher areas of the brain, but something more ancient and primal, and thats the violence we see in the OW's to this very hour.
-Spud100
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Facebook, from what we can tell, is a kind of false flag intended to gather huge numbers of users in an environment that will be – at least gently – pro-globalist.The biggest tip-off in our view is Facebook's astonishing popularity.
The Dems cater to the poor and the Republicans cater to the rich. This gives the illusion that they are different to people that don't have much of an ability to differentiate.
-James Jaeger
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The US can suffer one more major conflict and its economy will be on its knees - ready for China & Russia to make their move.
-gareththomasnz
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Anthropogenic Global Warming is statist science. 'Statist science' occurs when the political class decides what it wants from science and then funds those with scientific credentials that will dutifully produce the desired results.
-RedQ
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Anthropogenic global warming is an amusing hypothesis, nothing more unless the wisdom of science says otherwise. It hasn't.
-Atreju
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Basically, my point is that if you had Internet-linked hardware in your head, hackers would probably be able to at least interfere with you and possibly hack you to varying degrees.
-Skeptic
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I would choose truth over political correctedness. I did not ask you to stop contributing -- you have really got me thinking about things before in previous posts, but this aggressive, accusational, and belittling tactic seemed to come out of nowhere and really stifles stimulated critical thinking. So, instead of immediately suggesting "you should go back to school" and "(you are) blind, stupid, ignorant" because "you suggest letting thugs have more direct control"...Why not open up with something like, "sensoniq, I don't know if you realize this but I find that you seem to be suggesting thugs should have more direct control, and here's why..."
To which I would've replied: "No Mnemomeme, I did not realize that at all -- in fact thugs having more direct control is not what I was suggesting at all, please tell me more..."
-sensoniq
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Ignorance of mumbo-jumbo is a great basis for doing science.
-PDCO LXVIII
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
During the prologue, a narrator (Earl Mann) explains that in modern society, natural selection is indifferent toward intelligence, with the result that stupid people easily outnumber the intelligent.As the story begins, Corporal Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson), a US Army librarian and a prostitute named Rita (Rudolph) are selected for a suspended animation experiment; but the experiment is forgotten when the officer in charge is imprisoned for having started a prostitution business of his own. The military base is demolished, and a Fuddruckers restaurant is built on its site.
Five hundred years later, Joe and Rita's suspension chambers are opened by the collapse of an immense pile of garbage; whereupon Joe enters the apartment of local citizen Frito Pendejo (Shepard), and is driven from the latter by its occupant. At a hospital, Joe receives a confused diagnosis, discovers the present year, and is arrested for not paying his hospital bill and for not having a bar code marked on his left arm. Meanwhile, Rita learns to take advantage of those around her to earn money by erotic seduction.
Having been imprisoned, Joe is renamed "Not Sure" by an identifying machine, and takes an I.Q. test before escaping. Joe returns to Frito's apartment, asking Frito whether a time machine exists to help him return to 2005; whereupon Frito claims to know of one, but agrees to help only after Joe promises him billions of dollars. En route to find the time machine, Joe and Frito find Rita; and at a massive Costco, where Joe is arrested again and taken to the White House to become Secretary of the Interior, on grounds that his I.Q. test identified him as the smartest man alive. In a speech, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (Crews) charges Joe to correct the nation's food shortages, dust bowls, and crippled economy.
Joe initially professes ignorance; but discovers that the nation's crops are watered with a Gatorade-like sports drink named "Brawndo", whose eponymous parent corporation had earlier purchased the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Federal Communications Commission. When Joe has it replaced with water, without visibly improving the crops, massive unemployment causes riots, and Joe is sentenced to die in a demolition derby featuring undefeated "Rehabilitation Officer" Beef Supreme (Andrew Wilson). Rita having discovered that Joe's reintroduction of water to the soil has prompted vegetation in the fields, Frito shows the thriving crops on stadium's display screen, and the President gives Joe a full pardon.
Thereafter the President names Joe Vice President; and Joe later finds that the 'time machine' mentioned earlier is a highly inaccurate history-themed amusement park ride. Joe is subsequently elected to the presidency. Joe and Rita marry and conceive the world's three smartest children, while Frito, now Joe's Vice President, takes eight wives and fathers thirty-two of the world's stupidest children.
After the credits, a third suspension vessel releases Rita's former pimp, Upgrayedd.
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In The New York Times, Dan Mitchell argued that Fox might be shying away from the cautionary tale about low-intelligence dysgenics, because the company did not want to offend its viewers,[17] noting that in the film, Starbucks delivers handjobs, and the motto of Carl's Jr. has degenerated from "Don't Bother Me. I'm Eating." to "Fuck You! I'm Eating!"[18]
