I mean, you could probably make these comparispns in 2006 when the movie came out. Perhaps it wasnt prophetic but rather just a sature of the general human condition
Are We Idiocracy Yet?
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
> there is nothing special about nowadays. Nothing special? A sitting US President posted the following on Easter Sunday. > Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP There was a point in time when Trump would have b…
Can you imagine what past presidents would have typed if twitter existed 100 years ago? we had 2 world wars roughly that time, trump is only insane by modern standards, but modern time is if anything unusually sane, not unusually stupid, we are not living in the most special time.
I can remember what past presidents Tweeted, and it was civil. Were you born yesterday?
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#73Funny, just today I talked with a co-worker about how be both feel like we are approaching Idiocracy. His nephew 'watered' their plants with Coke. Not quite Mountain Dew, but also not far off.
I saw a TikTok of someone recommending to put cut roses in Sprite instead of water. Apparently it keeps them fresh much longer.
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#74A series that hits even closer is BrainDead, about an alien that gets into politicians' heads and polarizes them completely. It's very fun, and each episode recap at the beginning is done via lyrics of a folky song. Worth a watch and laugh. And cry.
Such a shame that it was cancelled!
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#75Not quite sure "Ow My Balls / Jackass" argument should count, the Jackass franchise is older than Idiocracy and was most likely an inspiration for that bit.
That was my first thought too. The site is overall excellent, but that one was a pretty clear circular reasoning.
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#76Not quite sure "Ow My Balls / Jackass" argument should count, the Jackass franchise is older than Idiocracy and was most likely an inspiration for that bit.
For some reason that also reminds me of the TV shows in Robocop.
e.g. Climbing for Dollars and It’s Not My Problem!
When I first saw Robocop these looked so crass it was obvious satire.
Now...? Well, I'd buy that for a dollar.
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#77I hear people make this comparison all the time, and while it is facially a bit funny I guess, I really don't think it holds up in any serious way. What is so similar about our world to that of idiocracy? In almost all the ways that matter, it seems like we are going in the opposite direction. * The primary plot point of idiocracy is that poor (and thus, stupid - the film never explains why this correlation exists in…
This feels like nitpicking. Idiocracy was never supposed to be accurate; the important part is how it seems less ridiculous as time goes on. The primary point of idiocracy was to imagine a world where people were acting in increasingly stupid ways over time. The source of this is irrelevant. In reality, it turned out that the source of the stupidity was an increasingly poor education system, increasing inequality, an…
> The primary point of idiocracy was to imagine a world where people were acting in increasingly stupid ways over time.
...and in doing so, it depicts a world that is not at all reminiscent of the one in which we live.
The white house is not occupied by idiots, but by thieves and murders and sexual predators. The American landscape is not a Brawndo-dustbowl, but a highly profitable, productive, and delicious-but-toxic bounty of subsidized factory farms, stemming not from a misunderstanding of botany, but a misapplication of that understanding.
The same is true of the medical industry, the justice system - literally every institution portrayed in the entire film, with the possible exception of waste disposal / the trash avalanche.
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#78This is just silly to portray idiocracy as a prediction of the future. Yes the current president of America is a movie actor, this was not idiocracy predicting the future, Ronald Reagan was a movie actor president before idiocracy came out. The movie satirised what was already happening, there is nothing special about nowadays.
In the sense of the word "prediction", it is certainly one. It was forecasting a future by painting a dotted line from the data they had, and they made a satire out of it.
They took Reagan being an actor and on their satirical dotted line they saw a president being a Wrestler. So not a 100% prediction but not that far off from a reality-show personality with "WWE experience" I'd say.
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#79I watched the eugenicist trailer and decided that it wasn’t for me. I guess that makes me an idiot.
(Really—there are far more salient points that promot that conclusion about myself.)
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#80"A character is literally named 'Upgraydd' with creative spelling. In the future, names have become increasingly absurd — just random syllables, product names, and numbers." Upgraydd was from our time wasn't he
This reminds me of one of my favorite scenes in the movie, wherein our protagonist is given his new identity credentials.