In Idiocracy, the president and his cabinet put their smartest people (well, person) in charge with zero pushback and listened to and trusted expert opinion. When a policy failed (Brawndo went out of business and took the economy with it), there was swift punishment for those directly responsible, and when policy succeeded (crops were growing), they quickly pivoted and elevated those responsible. In Idiocracy, the most competent people were put in charge.
What we have is MUCH worse; people stupid and short-sighted enough to destroy everything in the name of ego and greed, and just smart enough to be successful in their destruction of our societies, governments and planet.
I would much rather be in Idiocracy if I’m being honest. At least those people were trying their best; can’t fault them for that.
Yeah, we don’t have anti-intellectualism. Where people laugh at you for reading books.
We have pseudo-intelligence. Where people think they have more knowledge than experts. It is why flat-eathers, anti-vaxxers, climate-change deniers, and other science deniers are so full of themselves.
That’s not true at all.
In Idiocracy, the president and his cabinet put their smartest people (well, person) in charge with zero pushback and listened to and trusted expert opinion. When a policy failed (Brawndo went out of business and took the economy with it), there was swift punishment for those directly responsible, and when policy succeeded (crops were growing), they quickly pivoted and elevated those responsible. In Idiocracy, the most competent people were put in charge.
What we have is MUCH worse; people stupid and short-sighted enough to destroy everything in the name of ego and greed, and just smart enough to be successful in their destruction of our societies, governments and planet.
I would much rather be in Idiocracy if I’m being honest. At least those people were trying their best; can’t fault them for that.
Yeah, we don’t have anti-intellectualism. Where people laugh at you for reading books.
We have pseudo-intelligence. Where people think they have more knowledge than experts. It is why flat-eathers, anti-vaxxers, climate-change deniers, and other science deniers are so full of themselves.
Without talking about the eugenics hidden under the hood of that movie…
There aren’t any eugenics under the hood of Idiocracy. You’re thinking about genetics.
Eugenics is the idea that we should breed human beings intentionally, which is never proposed or discussed in the film.
Even president Kamacho steped down for a smarter person. Idiocracy is way optimistic than what we have today.
That’s not how you get to idiocracy though.