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idiocracy

• justifier 11y ago
  unsure why you're getting downvotes, the movie was a satire of the aughties and yet grows more poignant with time though exaggerated it is compelling in its depictions of politics, family planning, television, policing, language, waste management, control through sedation, food, health, standardised tests, and on and on hell, it's essentially predicated on a beloved sf author's dismissive pith: There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
  • justifier 11y ago
    and in the end the film remains hopeful of the future
• justifier 11y ago
  i remember reading the controversy surrounding corporations' offering an egg freezing plan and thinking to myself, 'i was unaware that was even a thing' then some time later i was having a reviewing of idiocracy and i realised i had heard of egg freezing plans before because i know i had seen the film before and the film was referencing the option