The basic plot of the movie is that smart people didn't reproduce at the same rate as the dumb people (sometimes, as we see, they didn't reproduce at all for various reasons). Dumb people took over by sheer numbers and by the year 2505, everyone was a complete idiot and the country was in the toilette. The crops were dead, garbage was everywhere, and Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator had taken water's place in all areas of life.
Thanks to an Army experiment, average Joe had been in hibernation for 500 years and woke up to this new reality to find that he was now the smartest man on Earth. They anointed Joe as their solution to all their problems but as you can see in the following clip, Joe was not going to have an easy time with his fellow citizens.
Now, I include this because the conversation Joe has with the rest of the Presidential Cabinet members is not too far off from the conversations I have in my math classes on a daily basis. Now, granted that I am talking to high school students and not adults, many of our high schoolers are growing up to use this same form of circular reasoning (how do you think the Democratic candidates and nominees get so many votes?). I had a conversation with a student a couple of years ago why he hated George Bush. The response went something like this: "I hate him because he is stupid!". "Why is he stupid?" "Because he is an idiot!" "Why is he an idiot?" "Because I hate him!"
So, this student hated George Bush because he was stupid, and he was stupid because he was an idiot, and he was an idiot because he hated him???
Another student said that he liked Barack Obama. I asked why and he responded, "Because he is black!" I was taken back, then asked if he liked OJ Simpson since OJ to is black. He said no so I had convinced him that being black does not mean you would be a good President. Then I asked again, why he likes Obama. He said this time, "He is a great speaker" I asked if he liked Adolf Hitler since Hitler too was a good speaker. He again said no so I had again convinced him that being a good speaker does not make a good President.
I asked a third time and he said that Obama is great and he liked everything about him. I asked him to name one but he couldn't think of anything.
This generation is being trained not to think about anything and then they grow up to produce such wonderful things like Jackass, Jackass 2, countless videos of them doing stupid things on Youtube and so on.
We are well on our way to making Idiocracy a reality. In Idiocracy, the number one movie in the land was called "Ass" where they stared at a guys naked butt for 90 minutes while he farted causing everyone in the theater to go, huh huh huh. The number one television show was "Ow! My Balls" where a guy gets kicked and hit in the crotch the whole time bring more huh huh huh.
The English language, as it is explained in the movie, was reduced to a mixture of hillbillie, vallygirl, and inner city slang and they made fun of Joe because he spoke in a normal way. Every sentence contained explitives every other word. If you listen to high schoolers talk, they are not much different. All anyone thought about was sex and money.
While this movie was extremely exaggerated, it wasn't too far off from our society today. I see what we are producing out of our schools and what they are producing on television and movies and who we are electing as leaders of this country and we are really bad shape.
I hope and pray that the Lord comes back soon because things could get very bad very soon.
In the meantime, if you want a good laugh and don't mind satiracle cussing, watch Idiocracy. It is funny when it is on a movie.
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