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Warning: this is not an endorsement of the movie! But I rented Idiocracy solely based on its premise: in an army experiment gone awry, a man who was supposed to be placed in hibernation for one year wakes up 500 years later. But the world he wakes up to is awful. The media has made us so dumbed down, and in the 21st century smart people stopped reproducing while Britney Spears-addicted teens kept reproducing that the human species "de-evolved" into really stupid creatures. He is now the smartest person on earth, even though his IQ in 2006 was only considered 100. The movie is awful. It's too crude, there's way too much swearing, and it doesn't do with the plot what it could have done. But the premise is hilarious. In 2506, the world is completely debased. Everything is a swear word. No one understands the rule of logic. Everybody is hooked on propaganda and advertising. And inane media is what the world revolves around. It was a pretty scary picture, and unfortunately maybe too accurate. It made me want to make sure that my kids read even more books, and made me regret not having more children to live up to my duty to make sure human intelligence goes up, not down! |
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