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We are actually in the Mike Judge Idiocracy cyberpunk future and it terrifies me. Our president is a reality TV freak, the citizens are so science-retarded that they think Covid is a hoax, the population all sit in our homes watching testicle-kicking videos on huge TVs while drinking Mountain Dew and eating Cheetos while the world melts down outside.

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That's all true. The difference is in Idiocracy there's no fracture- everybody's an idiot and perfectly content to be one.

In our time, there's still push-back to any descent into idiocracy.

I think we are going to have to push harder. The anti-intellectual cohort has got their preferred elected leaders in more than one country these past few years. Just because smart people exist, doesn't mean they are holding the reigns currently.

> The anti-intellectual cohort has got their preferred elected leaders.

I think the anti-intellectual cohort have been helped in that by the super rich who had their preferred elected leaders as well.

Idiocracy was oddly prescient. I really enjoyed that movie. Now that it's reality, not so much...

In Idiocracy , the president recognized his limitations and looked for the smartest person to put in charge of solving the problem.

More importantly, the president was able to discern who was smart in the movie. In real life we have Jared Kushner.

It clearly wasn't realistic enough.

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