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When I first watched Idiocracy decades ago, I thought it was a funny comedy. As the years came, I started to see it as a prophecy. And then, here we are, and
by elzbardico 1y ago
When I first watched Idiocracy decades ago, I thought it was a funny comedy.
As the years came, I started to see it as a prophecy.
And then, here we are, and we finally found out that Idiocracy is now a documentary.
- ahurmazda 1y agoHear hear. Also, Carl Sagan’s famous warnings about the decline of science (from 1995) is equally prescient [1] 1. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/632474-i-have-a-foreboding-of-an-america-in-my-children-s https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/632474-i-have-a-foreboding-...
- shawn_w 1y agoI've started to feel that the movie is hopelessly optimistic about the future.
- tstrimple 1y agoI’d love for our terrible presidents to be like Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. Putting experts in charge and empowering them? Yes please. Instead our worst president brings the cast of “Ow my balls!” into the highest office.
- TkTech 1y agoYou wish this timeline was Idiocracy. In that universe the president realized he didn't know best, freely admitted it, and recruited the smartest man alive. Even gave him credit for the problems they solved. That would _never_ happen in this timelime. Imagine Trump thinking "Maybe I dont know anything about the weather, maybe I should ask an expert instead of suggesting nuking a hurricane."
- mindslight 1y agoTrump brainstorming about getting light or bleach in the body to kill Covid was a shimmer of him actually acting intelligently. He was just way back on the starting line, whereas most people cover that ground when they're children.
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- bfkwlfkjf 1y agoWhat's your view?
- Paradigm2020 1y agoBy what metric is he an extremely succesful businessman ? Why would he have to listen to experts to become president ? I personally think he's an expert salesman... But take away the wealth and time he was born in and he's neither president nor nearly as rich (he'd be comfortably off <> salesman. The truth is not always, but definitely very often, in the middle. I think most people don't like that answer.