> How do we (Hacker News readers at least) agree that this is crazy but society keeps doing craziness

Because HN readers tend to be an extremely small subset of the general population. General population will happily vote for Trump, le Pen, Orban, Petry and other populists, which in my opinion is equally stupid with arresting parents for growing up their kids "range-free"...

More and more, I have the feeling that "Idiocracy" looks more and more like a documentation of now than a satire.