If you are not familiar with Mike Judge's Idiocracy, a fine cinematic depiction of the results of America's dumbing down, you should watch it immediately! What follows are more tidbits of evidence that
Judge has, at the very least, given a window view of our
500-years-from-now future, if not our present day.
Imagine a world where Snooki is celebrated as an Einstein, a world where
her utterances are misunderstood, not because she is too stupid for the
room, but because she is too smart for the room.
Imagine a world where several hundred thousand people a night camp in
front of their TV Oracle Machine to watch Bill "My Brain Hurts" O'Reilly
spoon-feed his wisdom, only to be followed on the air by a man named
Sean, who sits wearing a suit jacket, a propeller beanie, and a tutu,
joined by a talking parrot named Ann who plumbs the depths of her
blackened mind to come up with the most outrageous freakshow squawking
she can muster.
Imagine a world where Sarah Palin not only exists but is taken seriously
by 50 million people who think she is fit to be a heartbeat way from
leading the Free World.
This is Idiocracy, and we don't have to wait 500 years. The very
existence of reality shows and fake news is proof enough. None of it is
any different than Idiocracy. The movie's No. 1 reality show is named Ow! My Balls!
It's a show that is nothing but what the title implies, a full hour of
mental and physical mistakes that result in serious pain in "the man
area."
Need more proof?
1. Beware the Girl Scouts of America!
To at least one man, Indiana Republican State Sen. Bob Morris, and his idiot supporters and staff, the Girl Scouts are a radical-feminist-lesbo organization
that exists, not to sell cookies and gain merit badges, but to recruit
and train future radical feminist lesbians. Gee, I thought that was what
Lesbo Club in high school was for!
Morris
believes that this nefarious organization also pushes an abortion
lifestyle and, wait for it....... Communism.
*Facepalm*
What year is this? 1953? 2012?
2506? Morris also notes that the wicked Michelle Obama is an honorary
president of the organization. Well, that proves it!
But wait, it gets "better".... Morris got ALL the info he needed from
"well-informed constituents" and a “small amount of web-based research."
He added that the Girl Scouts is the tactical arm of another evil
Devil-approved organization that goes by the named of Planned
Parenthood. Citizens, beware!
In addition, Morris is a man of his words. He has pulled his own two
girls out of the Girl Scouts and they are now participating in another
organization to "learn about values and principles that will not confuse
their conservative Hoosier upbringing."
This is a prime example of idiocy.
How about this one:
Back in March, in the middle of March Madness, Southern Mississippi played Kansas State, a team that included a young man from Puerto Rico named Angel Rodriguez. Sounds fine so far, right? The problem began when members of the Southern Mississippi band stated chanting "Where's your green card?" at Rodriguez as he stepped to the foul line to shoot.
I don't know about you, but I knew that Puerto Rico is part of the United States by the time I left fourth grade. I guess admission standards are pretty low at ol' Southern Miss, but then, we do know that the people of Mississippi consider themselves to be part of the Confederacy and not these United States, so maybe we should be more understanding of willful stupidity.....
And one of the most stunning displays of stupid:
One of the state of Iowa's most ignorant, Rep. Steve King, went off on those squiggly energy-efficient lightbulbs at the CPAC hoedown in Washington earlier this year.
To insane Republicans everywhere, these energy-efficient bulbs serve multiple purposes. Depending on mood or paranoia level, they are the false idol, the fatted calf, or the Devil himself -- or even, conveniently, all of these rolled into one. Regarding being "forced" to use the new longer-lasting and more energy-efficient lightbulbs in Capitol building offices, King says:
"I would screw them out and send the interns out to get me some of those good Edison lightbulbs. And those interns would come back sometimes empty-handed in tears, because they couldn't come up with a regular Edison lightbulb."
Making interns cry and threatening the fabric of the universe is all blamed on Nancy Pelosi and President Obama, the two biggest names in the Repug Pantheon of Evildoers. King refers to the Capitol janitors as Nancy Pelosi's Stasi troops, in reference to the Nazi-like East Germans secret police of the '50s and '60s. The first problem is that Pelosi isn't the speaker, so she doesn't determine what lightbulbs a moron like King can use. The second, and bigger, problem is: It was one George W. Bush who decreed the evil lightbulbs' use in Washington's government offices back when he was pretending to be president, in an effort to save taxpayer money. But hey, why let facts get in the way of a paranoid screed?
These guys are regressing this country... Lowering our collective IQ and reducing discourse to bumper sticker platitudes and bullshit.
Fuck em.
