
Welcome to the Idiocracy
Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 @ 23:27:04 UTC Topic: General
From KeelyNet.com: We live in a generation of citizens hanging on to the poor speech patterns of a president, while eating freedom fries and waiting with bated breath for the subsequent news update about Anna Nicole Smith or Paris Hilton. The general populace is now too tired and dull to stand up for their rights; simply because if they do, they will miss out on the new installment of American Idol or Fear Factor. Stupidity and ignorance, it seems, has become a prevalent problem of epidemic proportions. We are becoming an idiocracy.
Mike Judge, creator of Office Space and Beavis and Butthead, identifies and understands this syndrome only too well: it was the subject material of his most recent film, Idiocracy.
The premise is simple: take an average individual, cryogenically freeze
them, and witness hilarity when they thaw out five hundred years later.
However, in Judge's film, human advancement has taken a startling turn,
transforming society into a population of idiots that have become
dumbed-down in the course of the ages.
More: http://www.the-trukstop.com/articles/2007/idiocracy.html
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