18 Years Later, I Finally Get how Idiocracy Came True - The 2024 Election

[@lornenoland8098]

Camacho was actually a very good president. He didn’t ignore, downplay, or blame the opposition for the crop crisis. He found the smartest guy in the world to solve it, listened to the expert, took brave action in the face of corporate opposition, and gave full credit to whom it was due. Camacho 2024!

[@kylerowley8248]

He also knew when intimidation was necessary and exactly how much to use.

[@Basedard]

IMO this perspective makes the movie a Utopia not a Dystopia because we sure as hell aren't finding the smartest people to run our world. America's VP was chosen based on Skin color and body parts and the other option was a reality TV host. The last place our smart people go is the government...If we don't collapse I give it 50 years until corporations take over control of America because the governments incompetence is too great.

[@danielfietkau733]

​@@Basedard As if that "takeover" needs to happen in the future. Most foreign politics of the last centuries were based on corporate interests.

[@Basedard]

@@danielfietkau733 What I mean by takeover is the 2 party system dies and we don't vote for a person we vote for a corporation. It will be Apple VS Microsoft in the 2120 Election instead of Giant Duche vs Turd Sandwich. It will still be an illusion of choice just like today but the choices will be corporations instead of people...and if AI actually becomes AI those corporations will have AI representatives making the phrase 'Corporations are people too' a factual statement instead of a legal statement. But corporate power is getting consolidated what was 50 corporations in an industry is now 1 or 2 both with the exact same objectives which makes this movies social observations/predictions even better.

[@arshiaarjomandi6279]

@Basedard that has quite literally already happened

[@lordblazer]

Idiocracy was waaaay more optimistic, as the president in the movie acknowledged the smartest person in the room, and tasked him with actually solving a problem, and even embraced the solution initially. this does not happen in the real world.

[@DrSpaceman42]

It’s literally the opposite of reality

[@thehumansmustbecrazy]

The smarter people need to work with each other, form their own competing organisations. The solution is to out-compete idiots.

[@theramblinggamer9793]

@@thehumansmustbecrazy impossible, the base of this issue is already a very real problem today. low iq people will have kids even if they can't afford or care for them, while intelligent people don't do that. therefor dumb people will always out compete intelligent people as they literally reproduce at a rate of 3:1 only solution is remove all welfare and social programs that give money to low iq people who pump out babies, and give that money to high iq people so they can have larger families easier. The fact is our taxes subsidize the dumb people of this nation and allow them to thrive.

[@whatisahandle221]

Biden administration?

[@Vhlathanosh]

@@whatisahandle221 only Biden? What about the other guy who wanted to nuke a hurricane?

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

The most unrealistic part of the movie was the idea that stupid people would let a smarter person run things, or even admit that they were wrong.

[@Wetcamerainc]

Its a hopeful ending

[@Nagalior]

Gotta give people something positive because life is depressing enough for silent majority that's sandwiched between mass of zombies and the elites living in ivory tower.

[@marquisdelafayette1929]

Funnily enough someone just said that to me after I made a comment America hasn’t won a war on its own since 1898. That “We showed up late til WW1 and wouldn’t have won WW2 without the other Allie’s especially the Soviets (which we don’t want to admit). But they lost 27 million vs our 600,000 and captured and killed more Germans in a single offensive than we fought and struggled with in the entirety of Europe/N Africa. But even the Civil War was whitewashed in our history classes (“states rights” weren’t a thing til after they lost and realized it wasn’t a good look to say “you died fighting a war because your local plantation owners didn’t want to pay for labor”).” Before that I had never heard someone say you aren’t “one of the zombies”. I just try to view things objectively though it’s nearly impossible BUT I think it’s something to strive for. But pointing to the facts is not something people wanna hear.

[@whm_w8833]

@@marquisdelafayette1929bruh, Soviet manufacturing was shit and lost a bunch land and resource to Nazi germany, despite Stalin was informed Hitler would betrayed him. Guess who gave the supplies so Soviet Union could fight back? 🇺🇸

[@eggsperiencedgamer997]

The point is it's making fun of democrats and their belief that democracy is what gives us our rights. It makes fun of a powerful black president that passes his reign to an old man child (obama to biden)

[@shadowpoet4398]

_"After several hours, Joe finally gave up on logic and reason, and simply told the cabinet that he could talk to plants and that they wanted water."_

[@shadowpoet4398]

What a nice metaphor for "DUDE, JUST ASK THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT! STOP ASSUMING!"

[@erikaarnold4780]

😂😂😂 👀 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

[@jamesvan2201]

maybe thats the answer to how we fix the problem here. XD

[@erdelegy]

Shaman stuff

[@AstroGremlinAmerican]

If you want to see current religious fervor, start a debate about Burger King vs. MacDonald's.

[@KidVolcano]

The most unrealistic thing about the film was that it took 500 years to decline that far

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

You sure nailed THAT.

[@tomlxyz]

The most unrealistic thing was that anything worked at all.

[@katakana1]

@@tomlxyz All the smart people must have figured out self-repairing machines just before they all disappeared

[@Syzygy_Bliss]

And that the idiocy was genetically concentrated; turns out it was in us all along.

[@darknessblades]

Not forgetting a Island of super-smart people that have Isolated themselves not existing. I expect there to be one, which secretly runs the world. maybe if they ever make a sequel they have some AI be the villain, which is just a wizard of ozz style villain, that is smarter than the average smuck

[@dustysoodak]

The President in that movie genuinely cares about the people, knows when to consult an expert that is more knowledgeable, admits to and corrects his mistakes, and is even willing to step down when he finds someone that he thinks will do a better job. All the qualities of a good leader except for IQ.

[@therealjammit]

Same. He was a good President. Honest and tried his best, just incredibly clueless, not stupid.

[@ldo300]

According to Carlos Cipolla he was an intelligent person, and I agree

[@abraxasjinx5207]

All qualities the last president of the US lacks completely. Imagine being an even worse president than this parody.

[@lostbutfreesoul]

Indeed, it is the silver lining in that movie. It isn't just the president either, every single character has this sort of 'aura of innocence' about themselves. They don't do anything with malice , just stupid actions they think correct due to a lack of understanding. Even the concept of lying to each other is something they can't wrap their heads around.... So many twists in that movie, it is one of the few I re-watch for a reason.

[@cyberdelicxp9125]

Exactly.. i always pointed out that this movie doesnt have a villian. Nobody is hateful malicious, or sadistic. They r dumb​@lostbutfreesoul not evil

[@MrHidePatten]

I used to not have a lot of self confidence, and then I worked in customer service for a number of large industries, including government. I developed so much self esteem because I learned that EVERYBODY is an idiot, nobody knows what they’re doing and they go out of their way to avoid responsibility and to pass the buck.

[@p5ychojoe138]

Well, it also doesn't help that at times claiming responsibility can often be discouraged simply due to how some systems are set up.

[@vipermad358]

If you are so smart, how come you had to work customer service?!😂

[@kennethburmeister8119]

@@vipermad358 If you had reading comprehension you would see he said nothing about his own intellect...Check out a mirror every now and then.

[@k3n0ju]

I experienced this as well. 😂

[@DoesNotInhale]

You sound like a good candidate for a narcissistic psychopath incel. Just a typical redditor i see

[@johnwoods9380]

Isn't a law degree from Costco just a generically rebranded law degree from a big brand law school ;-)

[@kyledavis5646]

Yup

[@yatta99]

"Welcome to Harvard, I love you." 😀

[@clintcowan9424]

The savings would be massive. I'd buy one and the frame, same time

[@wishbonedressing]

Now you're being profound, hahaha!!

[@Jeremy-bt8lo]

NN Out burger joint has a college. It’s happened literally in real life already

[@speakstheobvious5769]

You forgot Crocs. "Crocs" was barely a startup at the time. Crocs were put in the movie because Mike Judge thought no one would buy them and they looked stupid.

[@SunRabbit]

Even the name is stupid. It's almost as if the company itself was saying "what a crock" when they designed this shoe.

[@Ankh-he3wi]

Crocs were won by nurses....

[@smileydog5941]

Also they were dirt cheap. Now they are 70 dollars and every teenager wears them constantly

[@sglkh3r6f9h]

I think it's that only stupid people buy them

[@Ark_alone]

This is true because someone told me it was true

[@LuisGomez-ul3dc]

Every time I rewatch Idiocracy it becomes less funny and more depressing. It keeps getting more realistic as time goes on

[@marchedge4940]

I reject your basic premise. There is nothing that could make Idiocracy less funny.

[@Zo-Killa]

Faaaaacts!!! I still quote it for laughs all the time while lookin at the world actually feel bad cuz it's comin true. I always say i'm glad I won't be around to see it, but sad my kids gotta watch it... smh

[@timothyrepp4259]

@@Zo-KillaWell if we would end the welfare state, which is the largest and most disastrous of the government’s dysgenic policies. It would be shocking how quickly things would start improving.

[@shardinhand1243]

@@timothyrepp4259 does that include stopping support for disabled and elderly, becuase if so, you can get F U C K E D. but, everyone else, naw dont support them for free like the welfair state does. i agree on that level.

[@apollyon1]

Every comedy movie becomes less funny when you re-watch them. I recommend viewing them backwards, this can often restore the humour.

[@mark7youtube]

My fav line: "rather than cultivating self-confidence, it's much easier to adorn yourself with a commodity that asserts self-worth for you"

[@Fun_GPT]

Made me think of a bunch of people I know in real life

[@schtuff.8207]

me too!

[@Schwift3D]

😂 Cracks me up that you quoted a deep line word for word, but abbreviated the word favorite at the start...

[@acase9152]

This guy is the man. Can’t believe he likes money too

[@CraftAero]

I was hooked with the Doctor saying, "Your shit's fucked up." Two years prior, Warren Zevon was diagnosed with terminal cancer and recorded, "My Shit's Fucked Up". kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpPLiqSMZpx2pbM

[@seththomas9105]

Mike Judge has made some of the most insightful and deep movies of the last 50 years. I went to "Office space" and came out feeling validated for how my life had mirrored the movie through the 1990's. I didn't see "Idiocracy" in the theater but sought it out about a year after release on the recomandation of a co-worker. He was the first to use the phrase "documentary" in regards to the film, that I had heard. Mike Judge and the "South Park" gang speak truth to power and need protected at all costs.

[@JyotiDeka1989]

You mean South Park with Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny?? And also Butters and Jimmy...

[@interloc1290]

I’ve been begging ppl to check out Silicon Valley. Aside from being funny, some of the stuff in the later series is so prescient to technologies role in the world and the ethical ramifications of CREATING something just because you can.

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

@@JyotiDeka1989 And Timmeh

[@ILikeMyPrivacytbt]

I never would use "documentary" to describe the film, I'd use "horror." It's more realistic and frightening then a normal slasher film.

[@LogicAndReason2025]

"Think how dumb the average person is, then realize that half are dumber than that." - George Carlin

[@rattlehead999]

Not exactly, 68% are average, 14% are a bit above average and 14% are a bit below average, 2% are really above average and 2% are really below average.

[@overtoke]

@@rattlehead999 the first poster was right. find the person right in the middle. half are dumber than that person. your "68%" describes a range of scores.

[@LaborHours]

@@overtoke Yes, if you assume intelligence is a singular, linear data point.

[@joefish6091]

@@rattlehead999 WHose statement rolls off the tongue easier !?

[@rattlehead999]

@@joefish6091 Ah, so it's about whichever is easier, what was the video's topic about again?

[@LiliumCruorem]

People have been saying Idiocracy is a Documentary since it came out.

[@angryherbalgerbil]

Give them time. It took this one 18 years to get the message... There's some hope at least.

[@fftunes]

@@angryherbalgerbil 😂

[@bryandraughn9830]

People have been saying that because they are making a simplistic conclusion. It's a more nuanced subject. People say lots of things. It doesn't mean they understand anything.

[@donsolos]

I remember the first time I saw this on tv as a young teenager. It was one of those movies that almost demanded your attention. I knew what I was watching when I saw it, the future

[@Volkbrecht]

Although at this point it has become clear that it isn't. It got one crucial assumption wrong: that the degeneration will happen in a politically stable world. When instead what is going to happen is that the undesirables from the poorer places of the world are simply overrunning the degenerating richer places once they have become weak enough to allow that.

[@pedritodio1406]

The wrong thing about the film is they think, being dumb is hereditary but in reality it's much worse. It is contagious.

[@eggsperiencedgamer997]

The point is it's making fun of democrats and their belief that democracy is what gives us our rights. It makes fun of a powerful black president that passes his reign to an old man child (obama to biden)

[@isthisoneunavailable]

It's both. IQ is certainly a genetic thing. If it weren't we'd have a few chimpanzees and orangutans that can do calculus. But we don't. Because genetics matter.

[@crazwolf9825]

Like hip hop culture?

[@energyfitness5116]

Illiteracy is always one generation away.

[@thehellyousay]

stupidity has to be willingly embraced. it ain't a disease you catch by hanging around with idiots, it's a choice to join the idiots in their idiocy.

[@snellavision]

Hulk Hogan just last week ripped off his shirt on the podium at the RNC and said "Let Trumpamania run wild" ... we're there

[@vulgaris1251]

@@snellavision but way worse

[@TheNecropolis20]

Trump Vance 2024

[@Freedomfred939]

And men can become women....DNC run wild

[@catocall7323]

And Kamala basically talks like Camacho but with less humility.

[@tylergladys6626]

It's terrible that trump is the best canaadate

[@Abyssal86]

Just want to point out the president in Idiocracy lead his people through very difficult famine and drought, had their best interest at heart, admitted when he didn't know the solution to a problem, and effectively delegated tasks out of his area of expertise to the most qualified candidate he could find. Frankly a fantastic leader.

[@tombeegeeeye5765]

Only after he was shown evidence. Remember he was ready to crucify the messenger.

[@rumfordc]

ok but it leaves out how the "most qualified candidate he could find" happens to be getting paid millions of dollars to create the problem in the first place.

[@lingyjennifer8399]

Camacho was part of the problem - likely a big part, but a leader knows you have to hedge your bets and not disregard something because it sounds crazy. Think "Contact" or "World War Z" or even "Search for Red October". He stumbled onto this smart guy (some underling was paying attention) who said he had a cure for the crops, but then nearly had him re-educated. It all sounds uncannily similar to a businessman (or WWF wrestler) turned politician we've already had experience with.

[@effu9375]

This the American way....clueless

[@fdsfsdfsd1552]

*led

[@MilesBeyondThePast]

My nephew graduated 8th grade and two of his classmates had automobile brands as middle names. Jeep and Dodge... I'm not kidding. It has already started.

[@ImNotPotus]

Ford Lincoln Mercury was a hero of the Rebellion against the Army of 8.

[@McTrollinftw]

You know Dodge was a name before it was a manufacturer right?

[@donsolos]

​@@McTrollinftwyeah dodge is a old old name. Get outta dodge or something like that

[@noname-pz9kb]

My son has two brothers on his soccer teams named Cash and Rich. Better than Debit and Credit I guess..

[@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233]

Not worse than those poor girls named after Virtues .. Chastity, Temperance .. or all the Dick's running around.

[@PlayNowWorkLater]

I’ve always felt that we’re heading towards a cross of somewhere between Idiocricy and The Hunger Games

[@_SFW]

With an unhealthy serving of The Lobster

[@muhcharona]

Its the hunger games, the people are tax cattle and the capital is filled with weird people.

[@taoist32]

@@muhcharonayes, that’s how it is. Our elite ruling party is a bunch of clowns pretending to help the poor citizens who can’t afford $15 burgers and commute 2 hours one way to work a minimum wage “job”. This country is in serious decline, and not many are doing anything about it.

[@je19662008]

With a nice, healthy dose of The Purge mixed in.

[@amanda1500]

Don't forget Snowpiercer

[@AvenImages]

I seriously had nightmares the first time I saw Idiocracy. That movie should’ve been classified as “Horror”

[@AvenImages]

@@catholicpog7183 my children watched it daily (by choice) when they were toddlers and now they have a healthy level of disdain for human stupidity ✌️

[@iGame3D]

@@AvenImages Heart warming

[@douglasdarling7606]

I think when everybody started wearing Crocs the evidence was all in😂

[@BicycleFunk]

Apparently they used crocs because they were a big flop and therefore cheap to buy many. After the movie, they became popular.

[@sabbathjackal]

Supposedly crocs are very comfortable

[@kittygumdrop7442]

​@@BicycleFunk, yeah, they picked them because they never expected them to actually take off. Now you can't get away from them. And they have morphed into more forms just like UGGS.

[@naturegirl1999]

What is the obsession with dunking on crocs? I haven’t worn the,, but I don’t think they look bad

[@sabbathjackal]

@daniellewilson8527 they are in fact the ugliest shoes since clogs were invented. I'm pretty sure they are a modern clog

[@oogaboogalou4521]

Welcome to Costco, I love you

[@eggsperiencedgamer997]

The point is it's making fun of democrats and their belief that democracy is what gives us our rights. It makes fun of a powerful black president that passes his reign to an old man child (obama to biden)

[@MySerpentine]

Said in the most despairing way possible.

[@ChA0s_AgeNt]

lmao "Welcome to 'Ruble-age Garglers'... we be salty."

[@dominicparker6124]

My most quoted line

[@avedic]

@@dominicparker6124 That one line never fails to absolutely crack me up. This movie is stuffed with such good writing. The dialogue....the visual puns. It's all crazy good.

[@louisnemzer6801]

Somebody built all the technology that the people in the future barely know how to use. A commentary on our modern black box tech world

[@JM-vp8zc]

The Marching Morons by Kornbluth

[@larkohiya]

They already talked to all the machines I'm sure they talk to the machine to program them... Which is probably why a lot of the stuff is breaking or crashing

[@fullmetaltheorist]

Big tech doesn't want free and open source because it is a direct threat to their monopolies on power.

[@eggsperiencedgamer997]

The point is it's making fun of democrats and their belief that democracy is what gives us our rights. It makes fun of a powerful black president that passes his reign to an old man child (obama to biden)

[@painmt651]

In a person who is mechanically oriented, I worked on machines, all of my life. The new cars and stuff are ridiculously over engineered, and most products are made out of degradable plastics and just subpar materials that will not last very long and people are forgetting how to repair things. It’s pretty scary to an old man like me. Most people would have no idea how to make a fire without a freaking lighter.

[@johnd4348]

I have come to the conclusion that half the people dont know anything, and the other half dont want to know anything.

[@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233]

and half of them think they know everything.

[@SigFigNewton]

Ad funded media results in people being told what they want to hear rather than media ever continuing peoples education post school

[@BradMason84]

This is reminiscent of the expression “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it, those who do know history are doomed to watch it repeat”.

[@meishaleonard8621]

The overwhelming majority of the voting base has no idea what's going on

[@nickthequick0723]

If this was Reddit I would've posted that "Socrates was a little bitch" comic strip

[@bw10311983]

"My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now."

[@KidVolcano]

"She's livin' a great life..."

[@DaSpecimenFL]

Don't worry scro! There are plenty of tards out there livin' really kick ass lives.

[@forgottenzero897]

@@KidVolcano in the distance a 747 going down

[@cheesecakeisgross4645]

In our present time. We have DEI.

[@GhostWriter_Music]

so she now living the high life.

[@Dhakadice]

My friend always said "I know it's supposed to be satire about the future, but it's actually a very accurate depiction of the present".

[@Mystipaoniz]

Depiction? Did you mean "dupicshun" ?

[@iGame3D]

Your friend is The One Who KNows

[@runswithraptors]

Yep that's what satire is 🎉

[@redherronrecords]

Never interrupt someone who is watching Ow My Balls.

[@crazyluigi6664]

On that note, I once saw a mobile phone game ad that makes that feel tame by comparison. EDIT: To help clarify, it involved a newly created torture method where two people grabbed the guy's limbs and basically grinded them up onto a cactus. If you never saw one, they're full of needles and would be very painful to land upon. Thank God we no longer allow torture methods in the world (mostly), at least! The public would be disturbed by that method.

[@jordonnowland9276]

This was eye-opening! This explains so many people. I recently lost a friend because he would always claim I was wrong and referred to an authority. He would never argue the points himself.

[@daviebananas1735]

We’re the pints worth arguing though? If you were arguing the earth is flat it’s perfectly fine to just dismiss you as a kook. We don’t have to argue long settled facts.

[@jordonnowland9276]

​@@daviebananas1735 Yes, when the argument isn't absurd as the earth is flat. We are talking about abstract ideas that do not always follow the same rule across the board. There have been many long settled facts that have been proven false or expanded on. We cannot allow a few people to just say things and everyone takes their word for it. We must question it. When it can uphold to the scrutiny then we can say that it is correct.

[@ianmoone4331]

I couldn't help but notice that it took a massive downslide in iQ to end up with a president who actually cares about the people.

[@mizpike1683]

Like now? Trump24 please God!!🙏⚖️🗽🇺🇸

[@macdieter23558]

@@mizpike1683 Yeah, please, god, take this one from us!

[@muhcharona]

@@macdieter23558 Religion is often eugenic, where as secularism is the opposite, so its really just true.

[@brianh9358]

@@mizpike1683 Really, do you think Trump would be like Camacho and actually find and listen to experts? If you do, then you don't know Trump.

[@je19662008]

@@mizpike1683 I find it very interesting, but not at all surprising, that the two Trump supporters on this thread also invoke "gawd" into the discussion. Before consumerism existed, religion was the main indicator that someone was an idiot. I suspect you have a healthy dose of both.

[@Dr_Disconnect]

I think having a purple Twitch logo in the corner of this video is funny. Based on the fact of how brands are portrayed in this movie. Then reviewing it with a big brand slapped on it. Seeing that they are owned by Amazon.

[@LogicAndReason2025]

Willful ignorance is more dangerous than real ignorance.

[@FASBLAQUE]

Willful ignorance is real ignorance in this day and age where knowledge as right at your fingertips.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

i agree. "willful ignorance" is also called "turning a blind eye," "denial of reality" or "disinformation." living in your own self created delusional state, comfort zone bubble and claiming definitions have no meaning and reality is determined by emotions and is a matter of choice and personal belief. whatever you want to believe that makes you feel better, confirming your delusions that's what you should believe. and anyone who tries to tell you the truth is committing a hate crime for hurting your feelings. there's a lot of that INSANITY going around these days from both sides. its a common fascist trait. you ever read any of hitlerr's speeches? he was a MASTER at expressing willful ignorance. he just made up whatever "facts" that advanced his interests, basically the lies his followers wanted to hear, firehosing his disinformation en masse. its now a MASS PSYCHOSIS infecting practically 90% of humanity.

[@jaybestnz]

I think it's a certainty about your smartness is dangerous.

[@Based_Is_Best]

@@cjmacq-vg8umthe mass psychosis (a very real thing) is propagated by both sides - predominantly, by a wide margin, from the hard left - but still, yes, both sides

[@beckeredward14]

Yes. Real institutionalized ignorance is called Liberalism.

[@mrmastaofdesasta6994]

It's also very interesting just how faceless the corporations in the movie are. We never see an actual executive, we only see how they influence the world, almost like how a god would act in a fantasy story. In most dystopian stories, the hero would eventually visit the corp's headquarter and try to confront the leader, or the corp may send a lawyer with a cease and desist letter to the hero. The most we see are bottom of the mill employees who don't seem to embody the company more than anyone else would.

[@bradws4eva]

I think they're saying there are no executives anymore. It's just dumb employees doing what the computer tells them without understanding how any of it works. I don't think we're that far away from that right now to be honest

[@trashaimgamer7822]

​@@bradws4evaEh to be honest I think most companies would be better of without the big corpo suits.

[@bertellijustin6376]

Bruh the CEOs and boards were all full of idiots as well. They weren’t smart enough to be opposed to the hero. Like everyone else they were going through the motions and dependent on the past to keep them alive. That’s the whole point of the movie, intelligence had been bred out of us. On that note I worked with a guy in a restraunt that had 17 kids at that time. L-rd knows how many he has now, ten years later. Didn’t take care of one of them. Was a line cook. The same women would line up for second and third babies. This time will be different. Lol the idiots out bred everyone.

[@zm1786]

@@bertellijustin6376 just like CEOS now firing experienced workers to hire inexperienced foreigners because they are cheaper, not realziign the long term consquences ahem boeing

[@Palanibert]

There is a 1950s short story called "Marching Morons" that, Idiocracy borrows heavily from. It's comedic but has a darker ending. It was written by Frederick Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth. Check it out.

[@vibrolax]

_The_ _Space_ _Merchants_ by the same authors is also prophetic.

[@snorttroll4379]

Summary in two sentences?

[@JonathanHStone]

@@snorttroll4379 Corporations sell worthless real estate on Venus and try to kill a whistleblower who wants to tell the truth. It's also hilarious.

[@wakegary]

thx

[@Palanibert]

@@snorttroll4379 google it.

[@MR_ii_5150]

"Enjoy your EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES!" "It's got electrolytes"

[@erikkibler3466]

I saw a burger at my local gas station called big azz burger and I knew it was all crumbling

[@twirlygirly]

Idiocracy didn't come true. It was always true. The movie just made you more aware of it.

[@eggsperiencedgamer997]

The point is it's making fun of democrats and their belief that democracy is what gives us our rights. It makes fun of a powerful black president that passes his reign to an old man child (obama to biden)

[@matthowell8985]

Brawndo is basically Amazon right now.

[@daniellove162]

I think Demolition Man made more accurate predictions than Idiocracy

[@ZaBuZaMoMoChi86]

Late state capitalism and yet most atlantists manage to blame socialism and communism while private corporation and financial funds own literally all of the western world.

[@JamieRobles1]

Isaac Asimov was quoted that, as a society, the U.S. proudly favorite ignorance and downplayed, disrespected knowledge, education, and wisdom. I'm surprised he is never referred to in these essays about Idiocracy.

[@qzwxecrv0192837465]

The fact that people are so willing to watch "influencers" is a testament to their lack of understanding and inability to recognize what they are really doing to themselves.

[@user-zu5do6ri6r]

That's not new at all. It's been this way for thousands of years.

[@phillyphil1513]

unfortunately being dumb is in fact a form of Mental Illness in that (by definition) the patient/client suffering from the "disease" has no way of knowing that they are suffering from anything. see entry for: CATCH-22. therein the person can only ever be guided OUT of their condition by a either a loved one, or by someone in the environment that they're not related to, but are willing to trust (ideally a Teacher, Professor, etc).

[@vulgaris1251]

Idiocracy would be better than where we are heading.

[@gijoe41688]

THIS vid is brought to you by Carl's Jr

[@ChrisGuerra31]

Brought to you by Carl's Jr

[@SimGunther]

Brought to you by Brawndo: it's what plants crave

[@audreyquinn73]

😂😂😂

[@N0FPV]

Welcome to Costco, I love you.

[@Vapourwear]

That name has always bugged me. “You mean Karl Jr.’s”?

[@Winstern1984]

This film is a warning for all of us. It was buried when it was made. It was a lesson for all of us to think for ourselves.

[@muhcharona]

The film is silly, doesn't take evolutionary pressures into account and is used to make hack political videos endlessly, its just dumb.

[@olivierfouassier6495]

Very insightful ! Thanks. Proof that smart and funny go very well together.

[@IamPreacherMan]

Idiocracy is one of the best satires of the last 50-60 years. Right up there with Dr Strangelove.

[@alanstringer.]

I've found as I've gotten older I've naturally shed this idea that "other people know stuff." I had really Dunning-Kruger'd myself in my 20s thinking I had it all together and tied up perfectly, but as I got older and started to see my true limits and capabilities I gradually lost that sense that others (ANY "others" including companies, politicians, so-called "experts" etc.) had the answers. Eventually you realize that it's 99% blind people groping around in the darkness... and they don't even know what they're lookin' for. Aside from obvious logical functions, every single thing someone ever tells you that you don't have a way to verify is just you taking them at their word.

[@markus717]

RESPONSE TO @alanstringer, who wrote: "I've found as I've gotten older I've naturally shed this idea that "other people know stuff." I had really Dunning-Kruger'd myself in my 20s thinking I had it all together and tied up perfectly, but as I got older and started to see my true limits and capabilities I gradually lost that sense that others (ANY "others" including companies, politicians, so-called "experts" etc.) had the answers. Eventually you realize that it's 99% blind people groping around in the darkness... and they don't even know what they're lookin' for. Aside from obvious logical functions, every single thing someone ever tells you that you don't have a way to verify is just you taking them at their word." THE BAD NEWS: Unfortunately for us, Alan is in a minority and a large number of people are moving in the OPPOSITE direction: CONSPIRACY Theories, in which there is a very small, very smart elite who DO have all the answers but they're 100% self-serving and don't care about us peons at all. This is very dangerous because when REAL experts tell us things, like the 99.9% of climate scientists who tell us that the world climate could careen out of all known limits unless we change what we're doing, and thus the consequences of doing nothing could be catastrophic, the vast number of deniers, conspiracists, southern Bible punchers all unite to tell us that it's false, we're just being tricked, etc. We need to start respecting experts in their field, not instinctively repudiating them as hated elites. OTOH, don't listen to experts like Professor Jordan Peterson, a master of human psychology, if they use their platform to voice unqualified opinions (like Dr. Peterson's bad idea that we shouldn't do anything about Climate Change). MORE BAD NEWS: Since I brought up Climate Change, you might think I'm a 'Green Party' environmentalist.. but most of them are just as unscientific as the redneck monster truck owners. eg: Until we invent affordable grid-scale battery tech, wind & solar can NEVER represent more that a small percent of total electrical generation capacity; nuclear power generation is the ONLY viable option to reduce CO2 & make power. And there is NO scientific problem with safely storing the incredibly tiny amounts of nuclear waste, it's a political NIMBY issue, nothing more. PS: Where can I get me some Brawndo? That stuff is awesome!

[@canucanu9098]

Very true! If I can complete... that would be the power of humanity, to be in Brownian motion and still find solutions. Of course, many of the participants' heads are also broken.😄

[@johnmichel4865]

Yes, I've been panned (back in the corporate days) for pointing out that everyone's winging it.

[@Car_Mo]

As you learn things, along the way you realize how complicated everything is and how you really don't know much at all. It's a really profound and humbling insight, and at the same time really exiting. The most direct result of this is when you start to think about how pointless all the superficial, affirmation seeking people around you really are. It can really easy turn into a contempt for the whole world in all it's shallowness. So when you find your self saying something cynical, remember that you're not the only one who knows why.

[@SaintStrength0]

Sometimes, it doesn't matter if you're right. People will go with the person who acts the most confident in their answer. A lot of times, that person is wrong. But because they whole-heartedly believed they were right, others saw that and were convinced themselves. No thought what so ever to the history of the other person being right, the possible background both options have in the field, whether or not which person has your best interest in mind. People believe what they want to. When you don't have good critical thinking skills and your level of thinking goes to: "well this person thinks they might be right and is unsure while this person KNOWS (actually just believes really aggressively) they're right" Most average people will go with the one who seems more confident. You could be a selfish liar with absolutely no care for these people. The person who's unsure could be because they really don't want you to get hurt and are aware of the possible risks. But, that's life. *Shrug 😂 (Protip: if you're ever in this situation, ask both sides their reasoning for their opinion or idea(s). 😉)

[@kaastue]

I watched this video while on the toilet in my bathroom. Then I looked up into my shelves behind the mirror, and I saw all the labels and brands on everything in that cabinet. Then I started looking around, and everything was branded. My towels had a company logo, my washing machine had a company logo, even the toilet had a brand. Every piece of clothing I wore had a brand, even my underwear. If you showed this to someone even a hundred years earlier, they would think we have gone completely insane. And tbh, maybe we are.

[@jeffgoode9865]

You wear clothes in your house?

[@tyrant_tarantula]

I was hoping the toilet was in your bathroom

[@WellDoneOnTheInternetEverybody]

Not the exact quote and could not find who said it unfortunately: "Why must so many different vineyards compete against each other to produce such mediocre wine, instead of coming together to build one great vineyard with the best wine in the world."

[@seed_drill7135]

If you hadn't stolen your towels from the Holiday Inn Express they wouldn't be branded. What disturbs me about my toilet isn't that it's branded, it's that it's the same brand as a popular baby food.

[@Watch-0w1]

​@@WellDoneOnTheInternetEverybodybecause of free market. What u asking is monopoly

[@gerhardleroux2284]

What a fascinating perspective, thank you. I've never heard of the idea of outsourced responsibility in decision-making. The framing of the world where deep lacks are filled in the way you describe is enlightening.

[@isekaiexpress9450]

Unfortunately any warning in media will be viewed as a "great idea" Wag The Dog. Sergeant Bilko. Wolf Of The Wall Street. 1984, for crying out loud. They turned to manuals.

[@Rainyman63]

Michael Douglas once said in an interview that he was shocked how many investment bankers came to him to tell him Gordon Gekko was their idol and role model. He frequently had to tell them that he was actually the villain in „Wall Street“ and went to prison at the end of the movie.

[@isekaiexpress9450]

@@Rainyman63 maybe that's why villains shouldn't be made into sympathetic characters.

[@Painfulldarksoul]

Awesome! ... I'm gonna link to your video when making my arguments from now on.

[@fanngurl164]

😂🤣😅

[@BardovBacchus]

My Grand Dad would say, "Learn from the mistakes of others because you do not have time to make them all yourself." There is only so much I can know, the rest I farm out to folks who seem to know what they are talking about. I'm nearly always willing to entertain a better idea

[@tartrazine5]

You might be part of the tiny minority who use it accurately, but the way that lefties use the three arrows symbol when they're basically communists is VERY Idiocracy.

[@jddwyer6089]

Your Grand Dad was a very smart man. ;)

[@BardovBacchus]

He was pretty cool, @@jddwyer6089 He was a WWII vet who didn't see much actual action other than landing at Perl Harbor on Dec 12th after the attack. He liked cribbage, Boilermakers, Pal Mal non filtered cigarettes, and watching the planes take off and land at O'hare. He did the NY Times crossword in pen, could recite The Announcer's Test from memory, and had a ton of witty things to say. Yup, pretty cool guy

[@eggsperiencedgamer997]

The point is it's making fun of democrats and their belief that democracy is what gives us our rights. It makes fun of a powerful black president that passes his reign to an old man child (obama to biden)

[@venicec3310]

Very wise

[@mambojambo4874]

"Degeneration is making people less rational and more emotional!" "Do you have any evidence for that?" "No I just feel like it."

[@kajacx]

There should be a "required to watch" list of movies at schools just like there is "required to read" for books, and Idiocracy should definitely be on that list.

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

*with the addition of letting kids criticize what they read and watch and discuss it.

[@Bdavis2475]

The list would just be 60 biblical adaptations and right wing conspiracy documentaries in many states. So no thanks

[@cardboard9124]

@@Bdavis2475 Last I checked public schools weren't christian, or rightwing

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

@@cardboard9124 I think what he’s trying to say is that something like that could easily be used by evangelical Christians to push their beliefs on kids just like how in America they’re getting more and more standing in some states

[@sixmax11]

are you sure we want to give future generations any ideas?

[@bigbeast008]

Staying discerning IS exhausting.

[@DefaultFlame]

And depressing.

[@michaelmoraga2926]

@@DefaultFlame True, but the alternative is resigning oneself to being 'a pig in a cage on antibiotics' kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWW2q6mpgquUm80

[@jasont80]

Idiocracy appears to be, in part, a prophecy.

[@jpenneymrcoin6851]

no, not in part.

[@HippieLongHaired]

Yes, it's both pathetic and prophetic.

[@veg411]

Bravo.

[@erica.7231]

idiocracy is basically saying poor people are stupid because of genetics.

[@justinfleming5119]

@@erica.7231 It doesn't. Class as a function of wealth isn't signified in the movie at all. In the movie, people with high social status like doctors, lawyers and cabinet members are shown displaying lowbrow cultural mannerisms and living in shambles. There is nothing in the movie from which to draw your assertion. Intelligence, however, is heritable. Simply a fact.

[@nin5063]

Thank you!!! I really like this video. We have become clueless.

[@jasoncoughran5360]

Ironically, i was in California yesterday and went to Carl's,jr. the menu is automated. The voice sounded like Alexa and got my order wrong. I turned to my friend and said " Idiocracy is a reality."

[@scarletcrusader5431]

"Would you like some EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES?"

[@Rayzorbladez]

Did you get electrolytes for your garden?

[@danieldaniels7571]

Rally’s did that before Carl’s Jr. did. And it messes up my order much less than actual people in drive-thrus do.

[@raed.1883]

Not surprised since they don't have to pay SiriAlexa $20/hr.

[@Americansikkunt]

Time to cook your own burger….

[@mn0g0nm]

say what you will, the Healthmaster Inferno offers more services than most healthcare plans currently allow 🔥🏥🔥

[@neetpride5919]

We don't have universal healthcare and THEY'RE the Idiocracy?

[@eggsperiencedgamer997]

The point is it's making fun of democrats and their belief that democracy is what gives us our rights. It makes fun of a powerful black president that passes his reign to an old man child (obama to biden)

[@davidsellers3639]

Thanks Obummer

[@tidbit1877]

@@davidsellers3639 looks like you drank the Brawndo.

[@mn0g0nm]

@@davidsellers3639 OH NO, MY FEELINGS! YOU DESTROYED THEM!!! if you're not being paid good American dollars for this weak trolling, you're just another sucker, so congrats on your life there

[@Yukosan13]

I think the biggest thing to take from the movie is that when a brand becomes a monopoly, it starts to aggressively attack anything that's a threat to profit.. including Laws that were there to protect us from such things Though Gatorade just released their own branded form of water.. 😅 literally Gatorade without the ade? The future is getting dumber..

[@lordlittletoeq8537]

They're just selling gators?

[@mastershake4641]

Wait are you saying gatorade has ades in it?

[@sovietunion7643]

man where can i get my gator i've always wanted one as a pet

[@strangeyoungman]

I drink it while walking in my Crocs! :D I think I've missed the point of the video...

[@lordlittletoeq8537]

@@strangeyoungman crocs are royalty

[@bzabrocki]

I was just watching Wisecrack and thinking about how much I miss Jared and now I finally found you! No knock against wisecrack, you just rock.

[@blackfire3744]

I'm more torn whether the future is going to end up like "Idiotcracy" or the future depicted in "Demolition man".

[@muhcharona]

Demolition Man is more accurate, for a while, the TFR of groups is instructive for projecting further.

[@HandsomeHybrid]

On that note... Be well! ;

[@danieldaniels7571]

In Phoenix we have Waymo, which is oddly similar to Jonny Cab

[@timothyhoytbsme]

Classically, this is why we have a two party system, since either extreme is terrible. But it has grown stagnant, allowing the wealthy and oligarchs to conquer all.

[@wifix3822]

Or the movie wall-E

[@maestro-zq8gu]

Still deciding if I'm going to buy that Idiocracy T-shirt with all the ads on it.

[@BarryKing-mc7vq]

😊

[@BarryKing-mc7vq]

🎉

[@VincentNajger1]

We had already been joking about this stuff for decades before the movie. Similar themes were touched on in 'Dr Strangelove'.

[@mukfay]

It has been many, many years since I. assumed that the tech support on the other end of the phone knew anything. Excellent video with very solid points!

[@mukfay]

@@Dharma_Bum I'm shocked! 🙄

[@NorweskiDrwal-l5d]

I have Asperger's, I see patterns everywhere. As cruel as it sounds, I feel like I live in idiocracy now (less hyperbolic, but still). None of the mechanisms you mention in the video apply to me, but now after watching it, I finally understand wtf is going on and where people's behaviours come from. I thoroughly enjoyed your commentary. I learned a lot. Good video

[@muhcharona]

Do you see patterns, have you seen FBI crime statistics? Do you notice, or just follow the herd.

[@I_did_poopoo]

I believe the world might need a "reset". Sadly, these humans won't improve in my eyes

[@KootFloris]

How then do you observe this one: The electrolite logic with the drinks I also see in religion: We must follow God, because the Bible says so. And we must follow the Bible because God wrote it.

[@Plainsburner]

@@I_did_poopoo What would make these "humans" better? Might be a bit humbling to recognize that everyone in the world has a multitude of skills that they are better at than you. There are millions of different roles that contribute to the strange web that our society requires to function. It is a miracle it even functions at all, let alone how well it is going. I'd say the flaws are significantly smaller than the achievements.

[@NorweskiDrwal-l5d]

@@KootFloris Easy. There is no god.

[@ThomasFawkes]

The only unbelievable part of this video is getting in so many Zizek clips without him wiping his nose! Great video

[@greenaum]

I do like his Bartleby T-shirt, he's got a decent sense of humour.

[@squirrelsyrup1921]

The only thing wrong is that they blamed it on the constant breeding of "hillbillys". That isn't what's happening.

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Red states top the charts in everything from childhood poverty to church attendance to wife beating. It’s happening.

[@bloodeleine]

the problem is rural people who don't have enough exposure to the real world that are content in peoples suffering

[@makvande576]

Well if they'd made it mystery meat mutts, the movie would have been shut down immediately.

[@Ligmajohnson1989]

@@bloodeleineI’d say it’s more city people who have no idea where how or why their food or all of their other goods are produced. They want to tell everyone how to do everything with no experience. That will be our down fall

[@je19662008]

@@Ligmajohnson1989 No, the problem is when hillbillies who might know farming actually think they know things like manufacturing, science, or business. Most of them can't even spell.

[@viciousdiablo4198]

I just seen that movie 2 weeks ago never heard of it before and i was blown away by how true its becoming

[@forsaken841]

Jared Bauer's got what plants need. He's got electrolytes!

[@ImGodTheMaryBanger]

I love me some lectra lites

[@MrJacksspleen]

Personally, I love me some Starbucks.

[@Cadian-8th-4676]

​@MrJacksspleen Dude were talking about food

[@dj_laundry_list]

Plants need electrolytes to regulate their internal water pressure, I need Jared to help regulate my blood pressure

[@eggsperiencedgamer997]

The point is it's making fun of democrats and their belief that democracy is what gives us our rights. It makes fun of a powerful black president that passes his reign to an old man child (obama to biden)

[@AnonYmous-yz9zq]

Most people don't realize their precious brands get bought sold and traded. What was good 5 years ago is now Chinese crap. Check Wikipedia to see who owns your favorite brand this week.

[@evancombs5159]

This is why I am of the belief that corporations should not be allowed to be bought by other corporations, and one corporation should not be able to own and use competing brands. The only time a corporation should be able to sell its assets is when it is in bankruptcy. At no point should a corporation be able to buy a customer base or customer information. When I gave Company A permission to have my information I did not give Company B that permission, Company B buying Company A should not change that situation. I focus here on corporations and not businesses in general because I think if someone owns a business, but never made it a corporation that person should have more freedom to do what they want with it because that business is an extension of the owner instead of being its own independent legal entity that the owner just control.

[@angryherbalgerbil]

I heard Chinese Crap was bought out by Starbooks... I'm heading out there tomorrow for a handjob.

[@Deontjie]

My company only used Makita tools. Until the lack of quality became apparent. Then I learned that Makita gets their tools manufactured in China. Now Makita is a just another inferior brand, with a huge price tag.

[@Sashazur]

The first example of this for me was Polaroid. Until the 80s or 90s they were a well regarded high quality tech company. After they were killed off by digital cameras the company was gone, but you could buy crappy Polaroid TVs at Walmart.

[@juanperret7044]

i will never not laugh at welcome to costco I love you

[@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233]

now go out and give those poor greeters a hug.

[@rondiv6312]

Love it. Such an immensely important message. Thank you,

[@johnstanczyk4030]

I was going to send this to my friends to explain my position, but then I might be missing the point.

[@iankclark]

You might. Then again, Jared is also missing the point by that standard.

[@VonJay]

I’ve noticed for years that people often use the same arguments repeated over years when presented with other similarly recursive arguments. They don’t say anything that’s unique to their experience or perspective. And I felt like I needed to change my perspective the moment I heard Jared agreeing with me in this video.

[@lt.kettch4652]

The path to development is lonely. It can be made less so if we can recognize that someone else might have an answer to one of our questions we hadn’t thought to ask til now, perhaps your answers will help someone. You might be a half step ahead of someone else in this one regard, but that half step might make all the difference to them; not to say that you have it figured out, rather that you asked a question and have learned to seek the answer.

[@eggsperiencedgamer997]

The point is it's making fun of democrats and their belief that democracy is what gives us our rights. It makes fun of a powerful black president that passes his reign to an old man child (obama to biden)

[@brianfox771]

OP, the big problem with the video author's argument is that we can't possibly know everything. While the advice to 'think for yourself' is a good one, if you're not employing legitimate critical thinking, rational thinking and logical argumentation skills, then you're just going to engage in the same tautological circles the president's cabinet was in the movie. We live in a very complex, technological society which necessitates deferring (outsourcing) to expertise. The real challenge for our time is learning critical, etc., thinking skills, and the ability to discern actual experts from posers for clicks. Keep in mind that even experts can be wrong sometimes. Be very suspicious when an 'expert' starts opining or pontificating on topics and fields outside their expertise. Some good places to start in how to discern an expert is to ask: who is incorporating all the facts vs. who is cherry-picking the ones they like; who is admitting to and correcting their mistakes vs. who is hand-waving them or pretending they didn't make them; who is using sound reasoning and appealing to intellect vs. who is being hyperbolic and appealing to emotion or creating outrage. None of these are exhaustive or fool-proof, just a good place to start. One more thing to keep in mind: not everyone on the opposite ideological spectrum from you is wrong, nor is everyone on the same side you're on right.

[@Who-vt9oh]

We certainly can't avoid relying on authorities, since, as you mentioned, no individual can know everything. There is an absolutely necessary, and inevitable, specialization of information and expertise that occurs. We can't all be fully autonomous when it comes to knowledge, we will always be subject to authorities who have specialized knowledge and expertise in various subjects.

[@DobesVandermeer]

I wonder if the missing information has to come from authorities, though. Maybe there's a step down. Like when I watch this channel I don't really think of Jared as an authority necessarily, just a sort of a curated source of information with commentary added. Maybe more like an advisor? Not really a fully formed thought here though.

[@ideologybot4592]

@@DobesVandermeer You're trying to parse out a difference in definition to understand how one authority can be good and the other can be bad. It's nonsense. Jared has built a network, it invests attention to gain more attention and expand, while he's put himself into the subjective framework of the resulting audience. If you don't see how this is an authority, you don't understand authority.

[@quintessenceSL]

Iffy. It's more how expertise is used, codified by "authority". Expertise to layout available options and maybe document potential problems is probably a best case, but too often expertise is used in place of "ought", just slightly below god told me so. Nevermind the problems with self-interest (does the expert also come with an ethics expert) or how problems are multi-faceted, requiring several experts from different disciplines, and none of them have a crystal ball. Further, as no one can know everything, the more important thing is less expertise than the democratization of knowledge.

[@ideologybot4592]

@@quintessenceSL we live in a time of extreme democratization of knowledge. It changes little, because most people have no interest in macro scale problems beyond how those problems affect them directly. Meanwhile, if you have the expertise to lay out problems and options, then you have the authority to frame the problem and you ARE the authority. I say this because the primary form of expertise you need to do that is the ability to gain sustained attention, assuming a broad consensus is needed in your system. One way or another, every society ends up with standing instructions to reduce the incidence of problems in the first place, which leads to oughts, which need to be legitimized by gods - or worse - because normal people don't care enough to think through the cause and effect systematically. And you know it. I know why you think this way, because I know the drive to get past old hierarchical organization. But you will eventually figure out that you're trying to think your way out of social order that's as inescapable as physics. New boss, old boss. The relationship between the subjective and the objective makes the form of authority as solid as any idea in the social sciences, more solid than justice, more solid than love, more solid than freedom.

[@quintessenceSL]

@@ideologybot4592 Disagree. Heavily There is democratization of some knowledge, but I can go down the list from IP law to availability of education to unencumbered internet access that don't exactly jive with the democratization of knowledge. And why shouldn't people's concerns over macroscopic problems included how it affects them directly? Show me anyone who is different. Pffft. Any fool can claim themselves an "expert", and if the populace is so disinterested, who is to say otherwise? Yes, the universality of oughts in of all culture, since time immemorial obviously proves your point 🙄 You know jack, especially in the context of the fringes of knowledge, where there can be no expertise because NO ONE can lay cause and effect for systems that complex. But good of you to imagine yourself as one of the enlightened ones. I, however, remain unconvinced. What a blowhard.

[@steelphoenix8978]

"Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. use that freedom." its funny how meta some of these older movies were. ill be deferring this video to my friends as the knowing other.

[@emmaearnshaw3282]

Thats from starship troopers

[@justintime47]

Excellent video. I will now use your video as my symbolic and convenient placeholder for my unknown anxieties. Thank you!

[@joe-wt7oe]

The idea that “everybody is an idiot except me,” is ironically a common and incredibly idiotic take

[@SéaFid]

That you yourself are prone to

[@joe-wt7oe]

@@SéaFid nuh uh, everybody thinks this except me. I’m the only person with a functioning brain.

[@Falkuzrules]

The real irony is using the word "take" in this comment, which you know damn well that you're only saying because people on the internet started parroting it around in the last few years, and those who start repeating everything they see are helping our vocabulary get warped more every few months. Idiocracy didn't predict that!

[@joe-wt7oe]

@@Falkuzrules quote from the movie, “…the English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valleygirl, inner-city slang and various grunts.” The movie did predict that, but honestly words get created and if they’re fun or useful, they stick, and there’s nothing wrong with that as long as everyone can still understand one another and communicate complex ideas.

[@俺は誰でもない]

i dont think everyone is an idiot, but i think most people are because they prove it every day

[@theprecipiceofreason]

Tell ya something - the people on the other side of tech support calls don't know how to fix your computer. They have a manual that says restart at the top and everything else is ctrl+f for answers.

[@fritsdaalmans5589]

There IS such a thing as second line support...

[@speakstheobvious5769]

I work part-time at a small hardware store. A guy came in today and bought a breaker for his breaker box... He came back later and bought a light switch... He came back later and then asked me what else could be the problem of his light not coming on. I asked if he tried to change the bulb. He bought a bulb and didn't come back after that. There's a reason tech support tells you to "turn it off and on again" as well as asking if the PC is plugged in.

[@trevinbeattie4888]

I used to work in a tech support call center. Even in cases where there was an obvious hardware failure, we were _required_ my management to have the customer attempt a “reboot, reformat, reinstall” process before we could schedule on-site repair service. Then Windows 95 came out and suddenly we were inundated with calls about software problems that couldn’t be fixed because they were bugs in Microsoft’s code. The worst part of that job though was trying to talk a non-technical user through diagnosing their problem without being able to see for ourselves what they were doing.

[@N7sensei]

1st level tech support of companies is so bad it should not even exist. I have a contract with a big company of around 30 000 employees that use various IT systems. I am offering some arcane tier last level support on certain systems. If they fired 90% of 1st level support teams then productivity would skyrocket. Tech leadership is also almost always piss awful. Generally the idiots who could not make it as engineers go to leadership and the company is almost always worse for their work.

[@N7sensei]

@@trevinbeattie4888 The worst part of today's tech support is being able to see what a non-technical user is doing on their screen via a Teams screenshare or whatever. "Okay, now please go to the top menu, and left click the third button." "errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... this bottom menu?" "No..." "Errrrrr.... the 5th button?" "NOOOOOOO!" And such an exchange goes on for minutes.

[@MatthewGill-nv4tb]

The scariest part to me is that societal standards created the idiocracy... and now, in real life, it's the same. But the scary part is that there is funding, think tanks, and organizations working to create our standards/trends/ideology.

[@tidbit1877]

Ya missed the point, there's nothing wrong with letting a genuine think-tank do your thinking for you so long as it is filled with proper exerts that are non-partisan. It's the Republican "think-tanks" that you have to look out for and avoid. Believe experts and scientists, don't believe the slimy Republican politicians.

[@regnarrocker6162]

​@tidbit1877 I think the issue is politicians are very self-serving on both sides, which is detrimental to the nation's well being.

[@MatthewGill-nv4tb]

@regnarrocker6162 you couldn't plan things if they were just hoping a specific politician is gonna accept a bribe. I used to think it was that way but there's too much evidence against it. It's scripted, planned....whatever you wanna call it

[@chey7691]

I'm not going to do the "enlightened" centrist thing and say something stupid like "both bad, me smart!" It's clear that conservative think tanks are the greater of two evils. Like another disturbing insightful comment had put it, it's a WWE match every election with Republicans being the heels (bad guys) and the Democrats being the baby faces. It's pretty clear they collude mostly, but considering they and their donors (the actual powers that be) they don't trust each other and constantly scheme against one another. ​@@tidbit1877

[@chey7691]

​@@regnarrocker6162 Just look up project 2025. And the work the heritage foundation puts in as a conservative psyop thinktank. They actively undermine academic and scientific integrity like Peta kills pets. Yeah I get "both bad" but can we just start pointing at the super PACS and rich people hiding behind them buying politicians?

[@ahayala1]

Oh shit, the wisecrack dude. Glad to see you're still making vids.

[@1marcelfilms]

What idiocrazy gets wrong is that its not just stupidity, but also evil that spread.

[@pkz420]

Evil, or selfish behaviour, has *always* been the dominant social force. All of human history. It is not "spreading", it's already here, and always was. Good has always been outnumbered by evil. The smart have always been outnumbered by the dumb. And the educated have always been outnumbered by the ignorant. None of that is new, or growing. Despite this, humanity continues to Forest Gump its way into progress. The world is safer today than ever. Less violence, less diseases, less racism, less famine, more prosperity, more freedoms, and longer lifespans for all. It's not intuitive, and may seem like a contradiction, but any look through history will prove it is undeniably true.

[@trillionbones89]

Idiocracy would become a far scarier movie if there was a cabal of rich people that monopolized knowledge to enslave the unaware population. Or maybe they existed: but died out. Don't forget, someone build all the computers they keep using

[@carlscott5447]

Precisely. The term "idiot-bully" is unfortunately an important one for our era.

[@leonardpearlman4017]

@@trillionbones89 Some stuff still works! There's airplanes flying, and shoulder-fired missiles for police (!) to shoot them down with. There must be technicians, engineers, mechanics.... maybe they don't show themselves for obvious reasons.

[@Petch85]

Everything I learned are simplifications and half truths. The foundation always seems to elude me. Just to quote. The more i learn the more i realize how much i don't know.

[@WellDoneOnTheInternetEverybody]

"How do you know what's best for somebody when you don't even know what is best for yourself? Here, let me help you from drowning. Said the Monkey to the Fish as he helped him on top the branch."

[@lukeaustin9734]

Well, that forever-dawning realization helps me to stay humble and to be on the lookout for opportunities to fix holes in my understanding and knowledge. Even when this means revising something I considered true years later, but with the attitude of carefully going over the evidence as objectively as I can, and bringing the matter up to TRUSTED experts and see if they can offer some useful insights.

[@phillyphil1513]

re: "The more i learn the more i realize how much i don't know." "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's IGNORANCE..." - Confucius (551 BC - 479 AD)

[@mori1bund]

As soon as Fox found out what the movie is about they cancelled all marketing for the movie and did their best to make it a flop. 🤣

[@GunbladeKnight]

No, it was because of all the brands that didn't know how they were going to be portrayed before the film was made, but were too late to legally pull out. So to prevent the potential damages and lawsuits, they made the release as small as legally possible.

[@eggsperiencedgamer997]

The point is it's making fun of democrats and their belief that democracy is what gives us our rights. It makes fun of a powerful black president that passes his reign to an old man child (obama to biden)

[@aabrightlove]

​@@GunbladeKnightyou said no but then proceeded to explain why yes. Lol so Fox execs tried to make it flop because of their egos got it

[@GunbladeKnight]

@@aabrightlove no, they didn't make it a flop because of "what the movie is about" but due to corporations

[@aabrightlove]

@@GunbladeKnight sweetie the movie is about corporations

[@saulspeaks2557]

Wow! This was a really great video. I don't usually sub after one video, but you got mine. Just flawless.

[@sofamiller7133]

People need to get it into their heads that Appeal to Authority isn’t the misattribution of expertise to someone who doesn’t have it-it’s any case where your argument stops at “this is what some expert thinks.” While you should cite sources, it is the information found within their work that is the actual evidence.

[@thehumansmustbecrazy]

Many people will never get it into their heads. The people that can get it need to form their own faction and compete using effective techniques.

[@arpaddanos9416]

Ideally you are right, but the information content and complexity of the world is far too large for everyone to be able to dig in to sources and find the real information for every last thing. Sometimes understanding that information requires years of prior study too. That is why we do need trusted sources for information.

[@thehumansmustbecrazy]

@@arpaddanos9416 It's true that we don't have the time to understand everything. However, people who are interested in understanding can learn the first principles of the issues at hand. Understanding the first principles is necessary in order to analyze sources of information. This is the least that can be done while remaining effective.

[@jamesbooth3360]

Man-made global warming. 97% of scientists agree. A professor went through all this data and concluded that actually less than 3% agreed that the data was valid and even less agreed that the famous paper was sound.

[@eggsperiencedgamer997]

The point is it's making fun of democrats and their belief that democracy is what gives us our rights. It makes fun of a powerful black president that passes his reign to an old man child (obama to biden)

[@haveaday1812]

It’s basically the bystander effect en masse.

[@imonseii]

Thank you for doing my thinking for me.

[@din75cschmoo]

😂😂😂

[@aaronbradford736]

Thanks for the term "outsourced knowledge," neatly wraps up the defining feature of a box brain.

[@McReef214]

Rush Limbaugh called Idiocracy a documentary and not a movie after he watched it.

[@MySerpentine]

And look at him LOL

[@James_Bee]

@MySerpentine "And look at him LOL" A successful radio host, writer and speaker for decades that lost his battle with cancer... Yeah. I'm with Rush on this.

[@DerIchBinDa]

@@James_Bee Rush Limbaugh is one of the people who advanced his listeners to ideocracy by appealing to emotions and discarding facts when not to his likings. I am not even from the US but I looked into some of his recordings and they are borderline insane and people like you, as pointed out in this video, see him as the deep thinker who does the thinking for you. Success has nothing to do if he was right or wrong or even sane. As an extreme example to illustrate, Stalin was successful, Hitler was successful. Where they right or even sane?

[@mr.mereis3728]

You listened to some of his recordings in isolation? Did you do additional cultural and political research for the time those recordings were made? Did you read any of his books to learn the mans deeper thoughts that wouldn't be readily available in a radio show?​ Do you know anything about the man's life beyond that he was rightwing and that when he died a bunch of people said burn in hell?You shouldn't just believe anyone, a point he made in multiple books. That doesn't really sound like Hitler or Stalin, that comparison casts everything you just said in bad faith. Rush wasn't a saint, he was frequently overly confrontational. But he's dead, passed, and not at fault for the current situations.@@DerIchBinDa

[@birdthompson]

@@mr.mereis3728 Rush was a dumb smart person & therefore evil; may he have a better rebirth

[@Rsysas]

Thank you very much for this - it seems obvious and it’s wonderful to see the concepts out there in such an engaging way. Keep it up

[@ocek2744]

I think this raises an interesting question about trust, the idiocracy has almost entirely forfeited their ability to determine what is actually trustworthy.

[@billbadson7598]

Trust the science! (No, I haven’t read the science)

[@themomaw]

Yes, that's the point of the video. Look at Trump's catch phrases: He's the best and smartest ever. Everybody else is "crooked". The media is fake, the news is fake. The only person you can trust, according to Trump, is Trump. Absence of thought: giving somebody else full control of your life because they comfort you and assure you that they know all about the problems and solutions, all you have to do is give them a third presidential term (illegal), let them disband the environment protection bureau to empower businesses (a measurably bad idea), and look away from various brutal crackdowns on people who got in the way (you won't get in the way, will you?).

[@grimaffiliations3671]

This is quite common in economics. Most people haven't thought to question why we borrow in a currency we issue ourselves. Even economists couldn't answer that question in the documentary "Finding the Money"

[@themomaw]

Yes, that's the point of the video. Look at one of the presidential candidate's catch phrases: They're the best and smartest ever. Everybody else is "crooked". The media is fake, the news is fake. The only person you can trust, according to that person, is themself. Absence of thought: giving somebody else full control of your life because they comfort you and assure you that they know all about the problems and solutions, all you have to do is give them a third presidential term (illegal), let them disband the environment protection bureau to empower businesses (a measurably bad idea), and look away from various brutal crackdowns on people who got in the way (you won't get in the way, will you?).

[@Nylon_riot]

​@grimaffiliations3671 Because it is like trying to explain how a smartphone is made. It spans hundreds of countries, and it takes 1000 steps to assemble it. The short and dirty answer is that we launder it. That is why China holds most of the debt. We loan it out to other countries and collect interest. On top of that, it is tied to a commodity that isn't accomplished as a commodity but treated as a currency, that being the petro dollar. Part of our income isn't printed, it is drilled. Most people have no idea that the fracking revolution completely changed economics for the entire planet. People need to stop seeing that it isn't money that runs everything, money can always be generated. It is energy. And when you realize it is energy that actually runs everything, a lot makes much more sense. It is why everything is absolutely bonkers right now, all the major players are re-arranging their economies to adjust to a brand new economic system created when the US not only became energy independent, but a major exporter to boot.

[@petecommanche9344]

Greetings from Australia Jared, thanx mate, i really enjoyed this video.

[@happydaddy9826]

I've been saying since that movie came out it's been a fkn prophecy

[@NeverDoubtTheWorm]

It interesting to think that as a viewer I am just as much making a decision about my existence when watching the news or a main piece of content (movie/show/etc) as I am when I watch a commercial when it comes on between them. And then to note that that constant barrage of time having been spent making a choice about myself/my life in comparison to ads/content not only creates a reflection of myself but also makes it even more difficult to separate myself from the identity I’ve anchored inside of corporations and ideals I never got to choose. This joint is CRAZY!!!

[@DM-mq6hx]

I can't wait to share this video in order to prove my point in a comment section argument

[@0rnery0verwatch]

🙃

[@1247.cccccc]

Covidocracy was a prequel.

[@eggsperiencedgamer997]

The point is it's making fun of democrats and their belief that democracy is what gives us our rights. It makes fun of a powerful black president that passes his reign to an old man child (obama to biden)

[@wendellmarthers3519]

I never watched this movie until drumph was in the office and I love it now I'm wondering if it was some kind of predicting of the future

[@brewmaster-bq7gu]

That line “We got this guy Not Sure. He’s going to fix everything!” 😂

[@dishonoredundead]

The thing that kind of warms my heart today, is that when I type Idiocracy, into almost every system, spellcheck recognizes it. Try it out if you don't believe me. This may not seem like a big deal, but it means it's registered into our cultural lexicon. All the stuff that this movie poignantly satirized can be expressed via the shorthand term "ideocracy". That wasn't always the case, I happened to love that movie when it was first released because it was hilarious, and I found its parody of policing, and corporations, spot on. But if I tried to comment one of my favorite lines, "Welcome to Walmart, I love you", no one got what I was talking about. Thought I was having a stroke, or just got a job at Walmart and it was instinctual I just recite it. Flash forward 20 years when you've got Walmart greeters professing their undying loyalty to you so long as you make eye contact as you enter, and spend money. People get it now. People get it when you use cop talk like "this particular individual was not, um, this individual had to be tazed cause he was not uh, this individual is my arrest". Camacho is just Trump, it's just pro wrestling at this point, our entire system is politicians cutting pro wrestling promos . The right are heals, the left are baby faces, we are all marks, and Taco Bell University owns the world. And the entire WWE, they own the rights to both parties characters. I probably didn't do a great job of explaining this, but that's kind of my point... I don't have to, anymore, we effed up society so bad Idiocracy is part of the English diction. So after 20 years or having to explain the joke, people now know I'm saying when I quote "it's got what plants crave". I don't know whether that should make you laugh, or make you cry, but it's comforting to know we are at least self aware as we march towards our pathetic destiny.

[@_SFW]

Ya Blew It! jk... Great Job!

[@mr.mereis3728]

You know Camacho is a Babyface right?

[@eatonkuntz]

I'd say that's a tragedy. Taking the movie at face value to reaffirm a negative view might prove that the deeper irony is lost. Beneath the obvious comedy, anti-capitalism, and ignorant mobs, it criticizes the foundation of modern culture. I might get banned on KZbin if I said everything, but some context: -falling birth rates are rooted in the 60s -unfair markets lead to monopolies -education has taught what to think not how -science is funded by whoever gains -government is poorly understood -prosperity is earned not given -leaders will pander to the lowest common denominators that we give them Seeing the real meaning proves it wrong. You've broken the timeline.

[@crazyluigi6664]

If I have to correct you on anything, it's that Camacho is just Trump if he had a sense of competency to his name. Otherwise, hit the nail on the head there.

[@_SFW]

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

[@Odonata2024]

This is one my favorite movies. I liked your analysis. Thanks

[@hed1117]

Same! 👍🏼

[@jakeneugent7304]

Hey dude! Audio engineer here I notice you got a super nice microphone and a pop shield, throw some foam behind that sucker ( foam between the screen and your mic, or a windscreen on the mic) and it will get rid of some of the reflections off your walls in the vocal :))) you’ll be able to compress your voice without compressing reflections, and give yourself a podcast like quality :)

[@Pkilla80]

You get a degree from Costco? No? Than stfu lmaoooo

[@Pooky-Cat]

Is this seriously all that you learnt from this video? Or are you being ironic?..... I give in

[@WEFslayer]

Excellent analysis! I really enjoyed it. Thank you! Liked/Subed

[@inklingsun]

The scene that always comes to my mind is where the police are unloading automatic firearms into their abandoned car. A crowd starts to form around them cheering on the ruckus. The crowd's excitement then quickly devolves into fist fighting each other, LOL.

[@noosebrother]

We live in an age where there's instructions on toothpicks. 'Nuff said.

[@sovietunion7643]

shampoo as well

[@GriboedovAnton]

...uhm so what?

[@kathrineici9811]

Because people have sued manufacturers when they misused the product, it’s to cover their liability

[@jonesgang]

There have been a number of times that I have felt like we are living in that movie. The "dumbing down" of people is very real and it is really happening. People that are incapable of thinking for themselves are more easily controlled. Just think about how crazily overboard some people went during the pandemic. All you had to do was ask a question and you were shamed, ridiculed and often punished one way or another. People where turning in their own family and friends for exercising their freedom of choice. Lots of people were perfectly happy with having to stay home and collecting handouts instead of going back to work. Idiocracy truly is possible to achieve.

[@jonesgang]

@@TwisterTornado Your situation was a bit different plus you were actively looking for work. The people I'm talking about didn't even want to try and still are not trying. Glad you found yourself a better job bar tending. Cheers!