Idiocracy

This film is based off the scarily realistic premise that at some point, stupid people will outbreed smart people.

The result is depicted as a man who is mathematically deemed "the most average man in the world" in the present time accidentally traveling 500 years in the future, where the above concept results in his being the smartest man on the planet.


Recent decades have left me quite cynical regarding mankind's future development, and I've only been around for 26 years.

Especially in the United States.

We have yet to extricate ourselves from the Lay-Z-Boys of surplus and entitlement, even after a decade of economic recession.

We drive our gas-guzzling SUVs, we slam down high-calorie energy drinks and fat-dripping foods, we buy houses we can't afford in sizes we don't need, we pollute our environment, we expect our employers to take care of us for life...

And we treat all of the above as our inalienable right.

Then we complain that the government isn't doing enough, or is doing too much.

No increase in gas prices, no increase in the unemployment rate, no increase in cost of living, no drop in life expectancy can change the American mindset that YOU (the universe) OWE ME BECAUSE I'M AN AMERICAN, DAMMIT.

I fear for my nieces and nephews, who are every day from a million different directions being fed the lie that they are owed something by the world, no matter how hard their parents work to undo the damage.

One of many reasons my wife and I are hesitant to procreate.


Bang-for-the-buck, the bottom line, the best deal, etc. are the only motivators that matter in America nowadays.
That applies to choice of college, choice of degree, choice of car, choice of neighborhood, choice of church, choice of employer, choice of employee, choice of supermarket, choice of Internet provider, choice of spouse.......and anything and everything between.