Ive been saying this for so long! Im surprised it’s not referenced more often. We literally have Linda McMahon in the cabinet. Hello! President Camacho? 😂😢
Idiocracy is just a follow-up to this famous Carl Sagan quote, as far as I'm concerned:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
I've been referencing Idiocracy since his last term. And as far as reintroducing extinct species, if humans are the reason a species went extinct, I'm all for bringing it back.
I can't believe they killed the movie! How did we see it? I'm guessing maybe it was one of those boring nights meandering the aisles of Blockbuster? Or was it something we were curious about and ordered from Netflix? I just remember, we agreed that this could happen. We were from rural Alabama. But it's not about genetics playing out... it's the culture they were born into. As the insanity of this last election played out, my husband and I have both referenced it several times. This is so interesting.
Ive been saying this for so long! Im surprised it’s not referenced more often. We literally have Linda McMahon in the cabinet. Hello! President Camacho? 😂😢
Idiocracy is just a follow-up to this famous Carl Sagan quote, as far as I'm concerned:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
I've been referencing Idiocracy since his last term. And as far as reintroducing extinct species, if humans are the reason a species went extinct, I'm all for bringing it back.
Who knew that Idiocracy would end up being speculative fiction? Great chat, thank you!
It's rapidly becoming a documentary...
Speculative fiction => Handmaind's Tale!
Seems like there’s so much going on these days that you’re not reporting on anymore🥲
I can't believe they killed the movie! How did we see it? I'm guessing maybe it was one of those boring nights meandering the aisles of Blockbuster? Or was it something we were curious about and ordered from Netflix? I just remember, we agreed that this could happen. We were from rural Alabama. But it's not about genetics playing out... it's the culture they were born into. As the insanity of this last election played out, my husband and I have both referenced it several times. This is so interesting.
I've been saying this for years!
Loved this!
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I loved all of this!! Thank you for the words and insights!! I keep thinking about Distinguished Gentleman with Eddie Murphy.
About six weeks ago my Etsy order of a t-shirt AND an embroidered sweatshirt reading, "Unwilling Participant Of An Idiocracy".
Ok that's why I dnt remember it we were going through Katrina so I dnt remember a lot that happened during tht time