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Always worth pointing out:
People were skeptical of toilet water but after Not Sure et al demonstrated that it was effective, they embraced it.
We have people who were skeptical of… modern medicine. And when vaccinations were demonstrated to be effective they… shoved horse medicine up their asses and attacked medical workers.
We are so far past Idiocracy.
Yeah, at least President Camacho was open to other points of view and was willing to defer to an “expert”, rather than throw a tantrum because someone didn’t immediately compliment and agree with him
I mean, some people are past it… The types that deny sandy hook was real, and that want the guy with orange spray paint on his face to win.
In case you are talking about the COVID vaccine, no, that was not demonstrated to be effective, it was claimed to be. Big difference, especially when Pfizer then wanted a moratorium of 70 YEARS to release the full trial data.
Also, even if they were effective, there was no evidence that they were also safe and didn’t cause any long-term side effects, because such a study was impossible to carry out given the speed at which these vaccines were developed. In fact, the usual requirement for these studies to be done before the product could be put on the market were deliberately waived in order to roll them out as quickly as possible.
People were right to be skeptical of this, and they were right to protest being forced to take them. The people who blindly trusted “the science” are, in fact, the Brawndo consumers here.
Not quite Butt-Fuckers level of destruction.
Ah, Idiocracy - that shining beacon of hope, where somehow the USA survives what was clearly a nation-ending process whereby nobody else around the world got dumber (e.g. in Russa or China), only us, but humans somehow gave the people in power (corporations) something valuable enough to allow to continue existence and subsistence.
Over a hundred years ago (30 years before the term “science fiction” was coined) H.G. Wells Time Machine portrayed a similar slant on the populace of the future.
The reality is that with Climate Change and automation happening as they are, even those nightmare visions seem increasingly unlikely, as the planet cannot sustain us all and robots replace the need for a worker class of humans anyway. Instead we might end up more like Half-Life where populace decrease becomes more desirable.
Travelers (2016) is an excellent TV show to watch btw - too bad we are unlikely to develop time travel to save us all.
I don’t get it
Rather than mutually assured destruction, the clock counts down to how soon the world devolves into the one represented in Idiocracy.
Then it should be past midnight if the pandemic is anything to go by.
There are still too many outliers capable of critical thinking. Gotta bring down those numbers.
Will never happen, there’s far too many selfish smart people who aren’t waiting to have kids. There will be a ruling class as long as we continue on this path.
The long-standing pessimist in me agrees, but the hopeful Trekkie in me wishes for better.
I mean, I’m not saying things can’t get better… but they’ll never be like Idiocracy. The reason people seem to be getting stupider isn’t because of eugenics, it’s because of the concerted efforts of those in power to stigmatize intelligence. They’re not just going to up and disappear… they’re going to exploit the under-educated.
