[algore]

Idiocracy just became available for streaming in Europe.

I used to watch the european version, but only once a month when Nigel was berating Herman Van Rompuy

[Jim W N]

Guardian, being part of the dumb-down problem, tries to remain aloof and point the finger at the poor, sad, ignorant masses.

Typical Marxism - causing the problem and then condemning those affected by the problem.

[Da Coyote]

But it’s got electrolytes.

[mrsmith]

“morons rather than nerds will inherit the earth”

Also applies to viruses...

The Delta variant has more reproduction than others.

[datura]

I’d say the climate alarmists and the vax Nazis fall into the idiot category.

Flame all you want. 0FG.

[Vision]

America's current idiocracy is only due to our corrupt media/tech/academia control of information presenting a false reality. If Americans had access to truth we wouldn't be in this spot.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The smart people who think their own exhalations are a threat to humanity also believe men can give birth.

[Pollard]

Are we talking about the movie or some series I’ve never heard of?

[rbg81]

Its Urban Dictionary entry reads: “A movie that was originally a comedy, but became a documentary.”

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True dat.

[Pontiac]

Also that famous quote from Charles Bukowski: “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

NO there are several problems

First: Government has become the arbiter of what is good science and what science will study by deciding what science will be funded (grants).

Second: The press has become the megaphone for whatever bit of science says that industry will be the death of the world. Thus has the consensus of catastrophism become the science of today.

Third: The mainstream media has been subsumed under the socialist ideology of the higher education system. The media that was to be the watch dog of government and warn the public of the dangers of a growing totalitarian state has become the promoter of exactly that.

Forth: The higher education system that is supposed to teach the up and coming generation how to think has become indoctrination centers that teach the up and coming generation what to think. Now instead of a new generation learning to question the wisdom of the previous generation we have a new generation being taught to hate anyone who questions the wisdom of a socialist-Marxist generation entrenched in their ivory towers issuing decrees to dismantle the racist-capitalist system that has made the world into the safest and wealthiest civilization to ever grace the Earth.

In November 1964 Ronald Reagan said:

Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so!

It’s as true today as it was then. Unfortunately today it is almost impossible to refute what they say and be heard.

[353FMG]

>>Are we living in the age of stupid?<<

I don’t think so. The American people have come down to earth and are tasting reality.
Up to 2020 we have thought of ourselves as the greatest nation on earth but now we know that we are as vulnerable to political upheavals as anyone else. We see a halfwit dictator as our leader, innocent people shut down in cold blood in our Capitol, held without trial in an unknown place and we start to realize that the horrors of nazi Germany can easily be repeated in flyover country. We know now that we are not all noble warriors a la Band of Brothers on a mission to free countries from oppression by defeating evil regimes. We know that we can easily become one of those regimes.It’s disappointing, huh, that we don’t walk on water and that we put on our pants one leg at the time. No, we’re not living in the age of stupid. We are living in the difficult age of reality. Hang in there America like many of the less fortunate nations in the world have to do. You still have many advantages over them. But realize that they can all be taken away by some of the nutcases you voted for.

[Dr. Sivana]

The author didn't understand the movie at all. He stupidly states, "The underlying message of course is that humans ought to take such things as science, research and knowledge seriously, lest we create our own Idiocracy."

The humans continue to rely on science and technology to the degree it stills exists. The real underlying problem is that the people are stupid, and that science will do no good without a rational (not merely scientific) motivation, including philosophy and humanities. Joe knows little of chemistry and biology, but he can reason and therefore can solve the real problem. A mere scientist parachuted in might just run tests on different flavors of Brawndo.

Joe doesn't appeal to the folks for knowing physics, chemistry or even arithmentic. Here is his plea (put in terms he hopes they understand):

And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!

The folks at "The Guardian" may or may not be fags, but have already moved past meaningful writing, and have ventured squarely in didactic polemic instead. The are part of the devolving.

[Bobalu]

[Chode]

[rockrr]

From All In The Family to "V" to Idiocracy, the left assumes the worst of their enemies by painting pictures of evil and malevolent monsters. The problem is, if one looks closely the lefties are showing illustrations of themselves, not us.

It's all Liberal Projection™

[\/\/ayne]

The movie Idiocracy reminds me of “They Live” in that it was designed to denigrate the Right but seems to apply more to the Left.

[The Right Edge]

“Are we living in the age of stupid?” Well, yeah, duh! bruce jenner running around in a dress saying he’s a woman, “post-modernism”, the notion that the 2020 election was fair, the notion that it’s a good thing to have millions of unemployable people (who don’t even speak our language) streaming across our border (bringing diseases) and going straight onto welfare, that Christianity is bad, but a religion that wants to cut your head off is good...

[Truthoverpower]

Morons think covid is a virus. And governments acted correctly

[Nateman]

....examples of monstrous moronicism everywhere – from climate deniers ....

Stopped reading right there. Guess I should have stopped at "The Guardian"

[Organic Panic]

Idiocracy was not prophetic. It was satire. What we are seeing now is far more insidious and dangerous. In the film people were just dopey goofballs having a good time. What we have now is 1984. A top down government that controls every aspect of life using misery and hatred as their preferred tools of control.