IDIOCRACY: Is It Deep or Dumb? - Wisecrack Edition

[@WisecrackEDU]

Quick correction: we say the Flynn Effect shows IQ increasing 3 points every year, but it's 3 points every DECADE. Apologies for the dumb typo!

[@eagletsnupper7876]

Oh shit, that makes a huge difference

[@ezekielbrockmann114]

In that case I want to hire you to work for me for $10/hour. I'll pay you $8 at the end of each 8-hour shift, minus taxes of course.

[@toniodotcom]

So... we have verbal typos now?

[@soundofcrows]

Idiocracy confirmed

[@kennethwilliams543]

I.....dunno man, you kinda contradict your whole disagreement by the explanation if I understood what your saying correctly. Besides people are probably all going to become weak and paranoid before they become completely desensitized to ignorance I think.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

Actually President Camacho is very smart in one fundamental way: he knows there are smarter people than he is and is willing to listen to their advice even when he does not comprehend the idea behind them.

[@Matty002]

and thats why he was president

[@johnnathan5894]

Thats not necessarily being smart, thats called letting your ego down temporarily. Any one of any intelligence can do that

[@vksasdgaming9472]

@@johnnathan5894 Wrong.

[@johnnathan5894]

Veli Karppinen really? Looks like someone doesnt know how to let there ego down to learn. I think the issue here is the word you used. i think the word you shouldve used is “wise”:the president is wise to listen to someone smarter. And suprisingly there is little correlation between intelligence and wisdom. Willingly being able to listen to someone smarter than you is a life lesson that anyone can learn. afterall kids do it in school all of the time, well thats until they become teens and there ego takes full control....

[@vksasdgaming9472]

@@johnnathan5894I think enough smarts gives you opportunity to become wise. Presidentin Camacho has enough smarts to be wise. Wisdom and intelligence are related. Things become very difficult if you are smartest, but not wisest guy around.

[@EveryGamerLife]

This critique of corporate advertising is brought to you by some Chinese slot machine pay to win mobile game.

[@dangelobenjamin]

Kappa

[@Leopoldshark]

Raid's got what gamers crave. It has microtransactions.

[@michaelknox3715]

Donald Trump voice: *CHINA!*

[@mixedbagclips2511]

Lol

[@VapeKidJr]

like my pal sonic always says "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism

[@John-uh5et]

"Is it deep or dumb?" "Yes."

[@MinosML]

"So, you're saying me there's no yes or no answer, u sure people will get it or are they gonna want a simpler answer?" "Yes"

[@thebackup2121]

"Is it deep or is it dumb? - I Love You."

[@mirozen_]

Question: Is it true that when you say "No" you really mean "Yes"? Answer: "No" :-)

[@mclovin3678]

And you know. For us to even have to ask that question about a film shows how special it actually is.

[@biterness2323]

carls jr presents

[@FaffyWaffles]

Wisecrack: Is Idiocracy Deep or Dumb? Idiocracy: Why Not Both?

[@joshraid1550]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWaVq3djlqykoKM

[@johnbash-on-ger]

You get it.

[@dariusrobotson6872]

Deeply dumb

[@larrackell]

Thanks to this movie, I can't see the word "electrolytes" without thinking "It's got what plants crave!" It's got ELECTROLYTES!

[@nimblehuman]

I imagine the lovely AG Sara Rue doing that thing with her hands every time I see that word, along with hearing that catchphrase. It's not just you :)

[@Eay89]

Oh God every time I see it i have to yell "dude its got what plants crave"

[@thesterndragoon9159]

I have a friend from the midwest who had no idea Carl's Jr. was a real franchise. He thought it was made-up for the film (which we both LOVE). When we took a road trip out to visit my mother in California, I took him to one and he was blown away. He posed for pictures at the lighted entry sign and he even asked for "extra big-ass fries" in his order. The clerk, sadly, didn't understand the reference.

[@stop.juststop]

This movie influenced me to drink more water.

[@thebackup2121]

"Brawndo HAS got what plants crave - But I'm not sharing..." SLLLLUUUUURRRP

[@dlawlis]

One thing they got wrong was Costco. It should be Amazon instead.

[@Recon777x]

Sometimes hindsight isn't quite 20/20. In the movie Frequency, guy talks to his childhood friend 30 years in the past and tells him to remember the word "Yahoo". End of the movie, he's rich. Yahoo, not Google. Mhm.

[@SaikoKujo]

@@Recon777x Don't worry... Googles crash is coming. (the signs are already appearing) History might see others, like Yahoo, more favorably than Google. AOL was popular for a long time (monopoly?) but is almost unknown now. I bet a LOT of people got rich off of it.

[@GTA2SWcity]

@Saiko I can honestly say that while comment sections of Yahoo are still in the "leaves much to be desired" zone, they've actually come a ways...though having been bought out by some media company that also owns huffpo I'm wondering if it will slide backwards again. I remember when Y! article comment sections were downright attrocious, like reddit and facebook, the "chan" boards, and even like here in YT. Now at least ppl who post articles either try to be as objective as possible, try to balance each other out, or at the very least don't try to masquerade their bias as unassailable truth. I remember AOL days, or where even a 56K dial up was a relative luxury. NetZero anyone? Google iirc is merely the front company for government experiments with DARPA. However their two faced hubristic attitude is catching up to them fast.

[@dlawlis]

@@GTA2SWcity Yahoo is the worst city in France.

[@SaikoKujo]

@@GTA2SWcity But you lost me at the conspiracy theories. I can't. I won't.

[@estebanrios4418]

I think we need a new version of this movie every 10 years

[@fredfry5100]

That'd be hilarious.

[@CreekyGuy]

@Steven Ryoter - At this point, it might almost be possible to place a tripod and camera on any street corner. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6iafoyVnNStY9E

[@6789uiop]

Now - more than ever...

[@6789uiop]

@Mr Rie Have you seen this George Carlin bit? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gX2ydXqeet5_rM0

[@raisinmedia2327]

Esteban Rios The movie by the end would be called a normul tale

[@stefanwege1623]

2010: It's funny how dumb these people are. 2020: It's scary how often I see people like this. 2030: Boring. I go to Starbucks and get a hand job.

[@SUB2-TypicalCity]

2040- " go away I'm baiting ".

[@markcuban3691]

Dude literally Starbucks is a handjob people pull up just to chat it up and feel validated through their baristas lol essentially an ego boost like a handie

[@UnchainedEruption]

The larger criticisms were already true when it came out. That's the point of the movie, to exaggerate real problems to make them obvious and also to be funny. That's what we call satire.

[@johnbash-on-ger]

Idiocracy is now a horror documentary!

[@dc7236]

​@@johnbash-on-ger yea that's how I feel about it.. I'm more scared than tickled

[@satevo462]

The most unrealistic part of Idiocracy was that it's 500 years in the future

[@eleonarcrimson858]

why

[@quasarnova]

@@eleonarcrimson858 because it's happening now

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

It has already begun!

[@rickardkaufman3988]

The writer said he got the prediction right but was only off by 490 years.

[@garyfletcher844]

It's suppose to be. Te Time Machine movie was many thousands of years into the future, an the people were just as dumb.

[@derekmatzek9551]

Credit where credit is due, ‘Ow! My Balls!’ was a fairly accurate prediction of MTV’s Ridiculousness

[@cristiandobrescu3445]

Not far from Fail Army either

[@terrencedouglas375]

That bitches annoying laugh makes this fact

[@bunnyben5607]

Tom Green...

[@mattf.2142]

@COD GOD Jackass is what I was thinking too, it existed when this movie came out, and there are quite a few "Ow! My Balls!" scenes in Jackass.

[@the-engneer]

Ridiculousness just ripped off America's Funniest Home Videos basically

[@giveitall1992]

I'm a simple man. I see a raid shadow legends ad I fast forward

[@reverendaero]

Don't forget to smash that dislike button

[@rjonboy7608]

I know. I almost ended this video right there. But I love the movie.

[@kdrapertrucker]

When they say raid I think of bug spray.

[@gorchakovvs7750]

@@reverendaero Literally the first thing I did as it came up

[@reverendaero]

@@gorchakovvs7750 good man

[@iheartlofi]

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” - George Carlin

[@armyshope]

The song wet ass pussy was very popular

[@giantsr1eva]

@ I heart lofi George Carlin was actually against vaccines because he said that the virus would make a new strain whenever a vaccine was created. He also never feared germs and he believed that we were doing everything possible to avoid contact with germs. He also never believed a word that the government told him which is contrary to what we’re being told now.

[@JorgeChavez-du5vm]

@@giantsr1eva Lol and he's more correct now than ever before.

[@natplayz1989]

*twitter*

[@chopperdeath]

Honestly, people who graduated with a Community College degree, or any four year degree that is based in sociology or "Theory" are th true source of dumbassory.

[@circattle]

One of the big themes in Idiocracy that gets overlooked is that the people have stumbled into, and become reliant upon, an authoritarian dystopia. There are many references in the first half of the movie to ID tattoos, being an "unscannable" individual, automated payments linked to ID and most importantly, a brutally violent police force. Machines track their every move - "A coke vending machine alerted us to his presence nearby". The point being that this dystopia clearly has had little to no impact upon people's individual and collective behaviour beyond freaking out if somebody doesn't have their "tattoo".

[@JosH-lu1dy]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4DbcnieoL91irc

[@nathanmeagher7869]

I would probably be more amenable to this movie had the cause of society's stupidity being the greater amount of propaganda and celebration of willful ignorance than eugenics and classism

[@1Shai3Hulud8]

Why cum you don't got a tattoo?

[@baldisaerodynamic9692]

kinda makes you think of a certain passport that was being pushed....the UNSCANNABLES

[@ascendedbro1828]

"automated payments linked to ID and most importantly, a brutally violent police force. Machines track their every move" - I got bad new news for you..

[@tiagotiagot]

Amount of Education is not necessarily the same thing as Quality of Education

[@Ebiru2387]

Nor is it a measure of intelligence.

[@EvitoCruor]

TiagoTiago Seems to be contraindicative in most socially oriented fields where the ability to question presented wisdom will disqualify you for life. And Lord do I know many doctors who couldn't pass a simple logic test without three attempts and multiple choice forms.

[@danmar007]

Just like education is not the same thing as intelligence.

[@annarboriter]

I think you mean that credentials do not automatically confer intelligence

[@firebornliger]

Indeed, nor is Sound Theory indicative of Sound Practice.

[@JLarky]

Did we become dumb? Check this mobile game

[@ellagage1256]

95% percent of people can't pass

[@Decont89]

I always feel so bad for Wisecrack whenever there's some bullshit sponsorship they have to cater to. Gotta make that monayyy I guess, since KZbin isn't cutting it.

[@Idontcare1314]

“If you beat this game you get tickets to Disneyland”

[@dangelobenjamin]

"I've been playing for two weeks and there's no paywall" 4HEAD

[@adlsfreund]

Just press the L key two or three times to skip the sponsorship message.

[@Super165i]

So basically, people aren’t necessarily getting dumber or stupider, just the people who our society considers dumb and stupid get more attention than smart people

[@Deontjie]

No, stupid people do have more kids than smart people. Poor people have more kids than rich people.

[@garygarside9782]

and maybe america is turning into a third world country

[@warbydeception3228]

Yea. Because climate change science is boring. But infinitely more important to our future than social media, which fuels drama, which most people find more interesting. People always found science more boring than interpersonal and celebrity drama, but social media made it so we have instant access to endless useless information, so now almost no one can muster the energy to care about stuff that matters for more than a few weeks

[@cata3350]

@@warbydeception3228 Y.e.s. all of this 👆🏽🙌🏽

[@theshrimp1657]

Anti-intelligence is Peter Griffin Pseudo-intelligence is Brian Griffin

[@CreekyGuy]

@The Shrimp - Perfect... with one complaint: What about Don Lemon, Al Gore, Maxine Waters, Sean Penn, Matt Damon, Joe Biden... really, the whole Demonrat Party and the entire Nobel Committee?

[@Blondul11]

@@CreekyGuy yeah, and what about you?

[@CreekyGuy]

@@kev4378 - Yassir Arafat, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Dr. Stephen Hawking.

[@anaklusmosgreek3198]

good one

[@MrElionor]

@@CreekyGuy So basically everyone anyone better then you?

[@zzplato]

You are dissecting a satirical film about the eventual fall of the human empire and you pause to plug your sponsor, a video game that feeds your dopamine addiction "for weeks now" as you say in which you disconnect from reality and interact with people thru an avatar....

[@t.k.1319]

gotta pay the bills somehow. it's either that, a paywall or hitting us up for Patreon support every 30 seconds.

[@withportals]

I'd point you to this particular moment 15:20

[@NPCSN]

... Brought to you by Carl's Jr. 😂🤣😂🤣 its already begun!

[@IR-Fan]

@@t.k.1319 I rather supporting them with Patreon than seeing them sponsoring mobile game.

[@PennyDreadful1]

Queen of Shitty robots Simone Giertz once said that ads are like dogs taking a shit in your bathroom. Which is way better than shitting over your carpet.

[@ZImpresive]

It's starts to get scary when you see those people in the move in real life.

[@TheFamousMockingbird]

A president using Gatorade to water crops isnt too far off from one pondering an internal lung bleach to kill a virus

[@That80sGuy1972]

Fortunately, they are getting easier to spot. Most now wear red caps and get red-faced angry when you factually critique their messiah.

[@Alpha-ro8sc]

Here is the scary part. People today are not only divided, they are polarized. Both "sides" believing the others are idiots. Brainwashed mouth-breathing loons who cannot see what is right in front of them. Nobody asking why, how or who is benefiting from this. Non-stop arguments over...nothing. Look into this. The Social Dilemma kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5LEdGhtqciWn5I

[@biivamunner3122]

@@Alpha-ro8sc But your side is the right one, right? good god.

[@Sixstringman]

Open twitter and facebook and you see them everywhere.

[@tedlogan4867]

4 years later, it's self-evident, this film was prophetic.

[@nemesis8131]

This guy is quite wrong. Not fully but he is. COVID have proved me how much dumb people really are.

[@XJapanGonnaGiveItToYa-cd4xj]

So you believe that eugenics is real science?

[@tedlogan4867]

@@XJapanGonnaGiveItToYa-cd4xj Eugenics and all words associated with it have become the "electrolytes" of our reality. Ubiquitous, bandied about cavalierly, yet no one uttering or scribing these words knows what it is they're saying.

[@tedlogan4867]

@@XJapanGonnaGiveItToYa-cd4xj You spelled electrolytes wrong.

[@fcm3d]

Okay Idiocracy's future is better because they had that amazing job placement system.

[@tk421dr]

welcome to cosco I love you .

[@Nostripe361]

@carlos Rivas its idiocracy when we get an Orange Cheeto that doesn't understand the concept of time or recorded video as president.

[@JackXombi]

Yes, because only Republican presidents act (and sound) like fucking morons. G.W was a fucking joke, but at least he was coherent.

[@fredericklawton548]

@carlos Rivas dont be so butthurt bro

[@grandsome1]

@ Wasn't that photo fake?

[@nixeradicatus]

Imagine putting in all this work in 2019 to make a good well thought out case against this movie coming true only to have the powers that be respond with 2020.

[@hbeachley]

2020 in general, what the hell? I still can’t believe we didn’t somehow jump timelines; we certainly jumped the shark.

[@infinty123z]

"Anti-Vax"🤣🤣

[@johnbash-on-ger]

Idiocracy is a horror documentary now!

[@matthewlee4834]

Yeah Wisecrack is kinda dumb

[@KickstandOptional]

You keep getting the President's name wrong. It's Dwayne Herbert Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho.

[@JohnLee-sk5py]

This will be the name of my first born. 😂

[@MrUseless247]

Coolest name ever

[@bdbanford]

@@JohnLee-sk5py he'll be the president in 35 to 40 years!

[@YEOsCanal]

President, Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho facebook.com/DwayneCamacho/

[@juljul184]

First of his name, father of dragons, wait

[@alphashaitan65]

For 4 years I was a flat Earther. Then I turned 5.

[@armyshope]

I'm a hollow earther

[@wasabebo8334]

I’m a donut earther

[@lsdiesel8025]

My cat is a flat Earther!

[@Katharsis540]

“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.” Confucius.

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

That's pretty terrifying how true this has become

[@Sixstringman]

"WAP" was Number 1 on the charts that year. It won 9 emmys.

[@izzieb.2926]

@@Sixstringman and Icon for Hire hasn't topped any. They make music about issues that not a lot of artists sing about and Ariel Bloomer is the most criminally underrated female vocalists of our time. I've always been disgusted by WAP and any other songs like it, and it literally scares me how many people unironically like that song😑

[@christiandauz3742]

Worst part? WAP is still better than most Country and CCM music and I hate it all!!! Hyro the Hero mixes Rap and Rock well

[@Masta2Playa]

The problem is that quality of music is very subjective. Btw Wap is not a bad song

[@dantemcedgelord9331]

most people in the movie seem smarter than the people i deal with on a daily basis

[@FedorovAvtomat]

You must work in retail.

[@dantemcedgelord9331]

@@FedorovAvtomat yes i do

[@dantemcedgelord9331]

@5dope im not a femenist and not a girl either

[@davidlane256]

I hear you. I deal with dumb people, and I talk with smart people. Smart people frequently keep it to themselves, so you don’t know how many there are.

[@SaikoKujo]

@5dope reported... 😂

[@Ibhenriksen]

Mike Judge is a genius...this may not be the greatest movie ever made but it's definitely holding up well today. Aged like fine wine. Only thing he got wrong was everyone not being on their smartphones.

[@Puschit1]

Camacho listened to people that are smarter than him, though. And there is one thing that bugs me every time I see it: Everything is dysfunctional to the point that skyscrapers collapse out of neglect and everything is dumbed down so much that it is very questionable they could last that long. A food crisis would have happened hundreds of years earlier, all the automatted processes would have stopped a long time ago because nobody can repair or maintain those (just think McDonalds ice cream machines on a grand scale). "Ow my balls" may have the dumbest content but apparenty they can still do TV shows with all the necessary planning, operating cameras and coordination etc. Or look how clean and tidy the white house is.

[@markcuban3691]

@@Puschit1 maybe just the smarter people separate themselves

[@XJapanGonnaGiveItToYa-cd4xj]

geniuses don't form an entire movie around "eugenics might be right"

[@jeffsimon2347]

about the smartphones -- the movie is not trying to predict the exact future -- it is a satire and as such, it should hold up in any critical light.

[@thepickles8833]

I don’t know if I actually “love” Idiocracy, Because I still consider it the most terrifying movie ever made

[@fake._]

That's some dark humor...

[@AdamBlade17]

Welcome to the daily reality of anyone who has an above average IQ.

[@Dayonetheone]

@Oggatha Christie mwahaha 😆😅🤣

[@bigshow771]

@brajamtho757 Yeah. Because uninformed, uneducated idiots who love guns and monster trucks, and despise birth control sounds just like members of the Democratic Party.

[@abruskabrus3677]

I'm Not Sure about that

[@danbhakta]

"My 1st wife was a 'tard...she's a pilot now"...the genius is a plane crashing into CostCo later in the movie.

[@Greg042869]

It was shot down, iirc.

[@LucDutra92]

That was on the police officer who tried to shoot Frito's car with a RPG but unsurprisingly, held it backwards and shot down a plane instead.

[@carndangle7640]

Love that scene, always cracks me up! 😂

[@michaelmills8205]

No, because when the president and government is faced with a crisis, they search for the person best able to solve the problem, actually implement his ideas and pardon him when they give results. Ultimately, the President in Idiocracy made his choices based upon reality instead of ideology. Idiocracy is a more optimistic and intellectual world than the one we live in.

[@Naa45702]

Michael Mills umm 😐 shit you are actually right. *crys in corner

[@metallicarchaea1820]

Idiocracy is just a movie....... no president or world leader in any capacity, past or present will ever actually do that.

[@Animefreak242]

@@metallicarchaea1820 you should try traveling 🤣

[@mikitz]

The silver lining is that if your president was actually smart, you'd be totally fucked. Mike Judge couldn't see things escalate this quickly.

[@trashpanda6885]

@@mikitz He doesn't need to be intelligent to rubber stamp the destruction of the senate and every prior presidential and congressional norm, all he has to be is a useful idiot, and at that he is doing exactly what the republican party at large has been waiting for; He and McConnell are taking all the heat while the entire party apparatus is complicit. It would only take 4 senators to break ranks and override his role as Majority Leader. All of them are responsible for this madness.

[@TheFirstManticore]

This was made in 2019, BEFORE the discovery of COVID-19. The pseudo-intellectualism regarding our health, since that time, is truly unparalleled.

[@ktrn6713]

and today we see headlines that say "the vaccines might have been bit rushed out, just tiny bit" and "we didn't force anyone to take them". i never had anything against vaccines but i understood the complains about the covid one.

[@hibob418]

Those ‘headlines’ come from the Fox News writers room. That network functions at the same level of intellect now. as portrayed in this film.

[@jmfs2k273]

​They were right ​@@hibob418

[@giggitymaster8799]

Hi

[@juliagoodwin3461]

For years I was worried about us ending up in an Idiocracy-style future. Nowadays I think we have more of a South Park style future. Which isn’t much better to be honest...

[@JamesIanni]

@Eric Miret The IQ may be rising 3 points every 10 years... but are the IQ tests staying the same, or are they also getting dumber where a rise in 3 points is based off the standards the test provides? Like, an IQ of 100 today could mean something different than an IQ of 100 50 years ago, or even 50 years from now. As long as the IQ tests remain the same. then sure, a rise in 3 points is impressive. But if the tests are changing to accommodate lower IQs... then the 3 point rises don't make a lick of difference. I am not saying you're wrong, I am just giving some thought on what other factors could be played in this scenario. :-)

[@sadboipotato3382]

@@JamesIanni I would add IQ is not an accurate indicator of intelligence. There are plenty of high IQ dumb asses around.

[@kenim]

Clear cut idiocy is way easier to deal with than our pseudo-intellecual reality

[@tylerwilliams6022]

Breaking The Chamber: I know what you mean. I've met my share of highly intelligent people who have very little common sense.

[@david13579naranja]

Honestly, how can IQ change? 100 by definition measures average IQ. How can the average ever be higher than 100 when 100 is what average even mean?. No matter how dumb or smart we get as a society, the average person will always have an IQ of 100.

[@DrShaym]

One thing you didn't mention about IQ tests is that the scoring system is always adjusted so that 100 remains the average, no matter what. So even if everyone's IQ increased or decreased by ten points, the scale would be adjusted to keep 100 at the middle of the bell curve. So you can't really use it as proof that one generation is smarter than another, only that one specific individual is either above or below the current average, whatever that may actually be.

[@seanl764]

Ha, NNNEEERRRRDD!!

[@luketimewalker]

yeah but he needs Electrolytes

[@Puschit1]

It is an illusion that you can express something as complex as intelligence in a single number anyway. A lot of aspects of intelligence aren't covered in these tests and they don't take into account that some people won't do well under pressure or when faced with written questions etc. They usually favour simple fact knowledge and never account for the of shrewdness an uneducated farmer might have. Social intelligence doesn't count. And everything is theoretical - take the people with the highest IQs and drop them somewhere in the jungle, they won't last long because the being able to name all the plants isn't useful. If the characters of the big bang theory was in that situation, my money would be on Penny.

[@peterpan408]

So we need a test that can measure improvement/degradation. Perhaps a test that uses cross-referenced questions to challenge each aspect of intelligence.. Sure knowing Calculus makes you math smart, but being able to reduce a more general problem to the real choice is practically smart.. Also emotional intelligence allows someone to choose the solution that optimizes for thier chosen priorities (self/family/tribe/everyone). This affects things like do you let your dog shit on someone's lawn and leave it there???!

[@garygarside9782]

how many buckets was there?

[@Ughmahedhurtz]

5:57 Bullshit. Attend a school in an inner city. Or in a economically depressed area. The kids that show aptitude by answering questions in class correctly or trying to point out errors are ridiculed, ostracized, and all this with the authority figures either ignoring it or actively abetting it. When a literature book for an advanced class costs $100 or more and someone takes it and rips the cover off and tears out random pages because they don't like "kids that ain't keepin' it real," yes, you do indeed have a culture of anti-intellectualism. It's not understood to be such; when it happens, it's that "dude trying to make the rest of us look bad" or "white boy think he smart" or "Uncle Tom trying to forget where he come from." So yeah, misunderestimate all you like, it does exist. The really odd thing about it is that it isn't racist or otherwise discriminatory by nature as it impacts any kid who exhibits superior performance regardless of what the kid looks like.

[@stephenhawdon2208]

truth man. anti intellectualism is still heavily prevalent

[@dinamyter2860]

Same. A classmate of mine back in high school said that daVinci helped build the trojan horse. When i pointed out that daVinci wouldn't exist until millenia later, i was branded as the asshole

[@00fgytduydrtu]

I think this is a problem with African American Culture Mostly, as an Conseqens of slavery

[@elibreezy]

This is a lie

[@luketimewalker]

thank you Ughma

[@bogdankrasin6120]

Putting Raid ad to this video is the best irony I’ve ever seen

[@grndragon7777777]

I was waiting for a segue to a sponsor after he started talking about the corporations taking over

[@soulmechanics7946]

😂

[@r.b.4611]

Glad he didn't

[@King_Nex]

@@r.b.4611 me too

[@King_Nex]

Yes I did, but it's a matter of timing. If he shilled right after, it would have been a whole lot worse

[@grndragon7777777]

@@King_Nex Why would it be bad? He did it on the video " how to beat the system and lose"

[@yibtstill]

2019: The country is breaking out in diseases cured half a century ago 2020: I'm about to end this empires whole career

[@jaymo9919]

Pretty short lived to be considered an empire.

[@yibtstill]

@@jaymo9919 I didn't realise length was one of the official criteria for an empire. Learn something new every day. /S

[@yibtstill]

@Gustavo Octavio deCampos ?????? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism

[@aowi7280]

"Its got electrolytes.'

[@seamusmckeon9109]

But why?

[@fisharepeopletoo9653]

@@seamusmckeon9109 because its what plants crave

[@seamusmckeon9109]

But why do plants crave it?

[@m_tron99]

*It's

[@deathnight914]

@@seamusmckeon9109 Yes

[@everythingthrice]

Idiocracy predicted that one day it would be normal to watch television on the toilet

[@andrewward5891]

I’m shocked the lazy boy chair/ toilet hasn’t been invented yet.

[@Blakezilla594]

​@@andrewward5891because most people have sanitary standards and noses.

[@ganmerlad]

The title of your video isn't "Prophetic or Nah?". It's "Deep or Dumb?". Idiocracy may not be prophetic, but it's more deep than it's dumb. Something you glossed over was about educated people having less children. That's true. They often don't have the time or money for children. They also tend to take steps ensuring they won't get pregnant until ready (which may be never). The most educated countries have falling birth rates. Japan, for instance, is very worried now.

[@omgwtfbbqstfu]

Yep, education sterilizes your women based on "merit"

[@alexandergoloborodko27]

That educated people have more kids is because of their wellbeing, not intelligence. Poor people can't afford to not have children. They can't earn pensions on minimum wage and need children to survive when they get old. Rich people don't get kids for opposite reason. Rich kids are a luxury and aren't needed for survival. When the poor become rich, they have less kids. It is basic economics. Peter coffin has a very good essay about this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/on7Fp6ejl5xshJI

[@1hansety1]

People aren’t having less children.... they are having fewer children.

[@QuestionThings123]

I agree. That was one of the most impactful parts of that movie for me when I originally watched it. I knew just how true that was, and how it was without a doubt, going to lead to exactly what the movie said it would.

[@MachinedFace88ttv]

He literally said dumb poor people out breed those who lived within their means...remind you of a certain 13 percent?

Tha fact we have higher scores in IQ tests today doesn't mean we are more inteligent. It simply means we are better at solving IQ tests.

[@jthodges4741]

The issue with this is that IQ tests arent something you can necessarily practice for per say. It measures a few out of the 7 types of intelligence using randomized questions that have to be solved by coming up with a method to on the spot

[@liammarshall-butler3384]

@@jthodges4741 Just interested, do we have any evidence for there being 7 types of intelligence we are capable of measuring?

[@AdamBlade17]

The average IQ is always considered to be 100, but what that 100 really means is not constant through time. In other words, we are better at creating IQ tests that make us look more intelligent.

[@angelwingz892]

OR the tests have been dumbed down.

[@QuestionThings123]

I remember seeing Idiocracy a year after I graduated high school, when it first came out back in 2006. My roommate worked at Blockbuster, so he brought it home one night so we could watch it. I remember it as the scariest horror film I've ever seen, because I knew at that moment after watching it, that this was the most accurate description ever foretold, of the future we were quickly going to be heading towards. Fast forward 13 years to 2019, and it's all come true so far.

[@timp8857]

EndlessNomad true

[@aperson4640]

I started feeling similarly when I saw everyone start to wear shirts with that giant Monster energy drink logo at my community college.

[@jccjccjoanne]

I feel like it's even going at a faster pace.

[@leif09123g]

You guys still had Blockbuster in 2006? That place was awesome! ..... back in the 90s

[@liamnehren1054]

luckily if it gets bad enough survival of the fittest will come back into play and it will either slowly or swiftly bounce back

[@franciscovarela7127]

November 6th, 2024 Replay, we're here again.

[@theSemiChrist]

The error being the assumption that the masses have ever been very intelligent.

[@felixfeliciano7011]

Or that somehow, the more intelligent beings you put together, the greater the intelligence you get out.

[@aldoushuxley5953]

@@felixfeliciano7011 democracy evens everything out. A good king can do far more good than politicians do in a democracy. See Marcus Aurelius for example. But at the same time, a bad king also has the ability to fuck everything up even more. Democracies even everything out, intelligence, morality, values... So they are more stable

[@jessicasfakeaccount]

well, is that an error, though? i mean, you could argue he's retelling the story of the collapse of rome, and perhaps even doing it on purpose. pointing out that our intelligence levels have collapsed previously doesn't make the film less realistic, it makes it more realistic.

[@aldoushuxley5953]

@@jth_printed_designs democracy just means rule of the people (demos+kratos in greek). I would classify the US as a democracy, just not one in which everyone has the same power (instead it is dependant on where you live) A "real" democracy (meaning the people vote directly, instead of representative democracies) does not really exist at the moment, although Switzerland at least comes close

[@jessicasfakeaccount]

@@jth_printed_designs yeah, that's a fairly old position coming from the monarchist right. i'd prefer to live in a real democracy, myself.

[@danieldeak9141]

"A monster truck execution" If i ever become a criminal sentenced to death i want to be killed the right way.

[@thealphacucker581]

Saints Row 2 bb!

[@Malkmusianful]

i too want to be murdered brutally by beef supreme

[@TiwazGoudsnor]

Everytime i hear Jared read a commercial i can see a bit of his soul leaving his iris.

[@billrose2202]

quite ironic isn't it considering the topic of the video haha

[@JorgeChavez-du5vm]

Lol brought to you by Carl's Jr.

[@attempted_realist]

This is 'Murica... it's a preview of the future documentary.

[@yissssss]

All my stupid friends hated it and all my smart friends loved it. That's about sums it up.

[@mototerminator3957]

i thought i was the only one thinking that.....if you want to test someones intelligence, just let him watch idiocracy, if he doesnt laugh he is dumb as shit xD

[@secnock.]

I really doubt this.

[@yissssss]

@@secnock. Nobody cares.

[@apologist.mp3]

Moto Terminator I mean like it is funny but to act like it’s this scathingly true social commentary is just incorrect

[@jeffthevomitguy1178]

@@apologist.mp3 username checks out

[@UGOTNUKED]

11:45 "IQ scores have been increasing" That's just not true. Not only has the Flynn effect stopped, it even reversed (Bratsberg & Rogeberg, Flynn effect and its reversal are both environmentally caused., 2018). But even more important: The correlation between intelligence and reaction times suggests that IQ in the West has dropped a full standard deviation in the last century ( Woodley, Nijenhuis, Murphy, Were the Victorians cleverer than us? The decline in general intelligence estimated from a meta-analysis of the slowing of simple reaction time. 2013). And it is precisely Idiocracy's depiction of dysgenics that is the most probable cause. The most like;y scenario is that we're straddling the line between the gains from the Flynn Effect, i.e. better nutrition, etc, and demographic related dysgenic factors.

[@Gamahamel]

Ty m8.

[@dddmemaybe]

I'd like to add that the salty american diet will protect against loss of brain functionality during brain growth in children/young adults. such consistent salt intake is actually really important for brain health. potassium and water are also important for the nervous system and entire body, albeit many people in america just don't eat fruits and have no potassium. Can't say diet is really strictly better considering the offset of non-nutritional diet options which are so frequent. I don't think dna is getting _worse_ on intelligence, but rather the individuals are getting worse as a whole. Idiocracy can't happen realistically because one smart and emotionally specific person would manipulate all of the dumb people and create a new society. Either through classic human purging or possibly just manipulation.

[@anameyoucantremember]

@@dddmemaybe "One smart and emotionally specific person would manipulate all of the dumb people and create a new society." Did you see the movie? That's exactly what happens. Even tho the protagonist is not "smart" in his era, he's the "smartest person in the world" in the future.

[@johnrmcclure1]

General populace IQs have been decreasing over the past 64 years primarily due to one reason. Western countries are importing low IQ people in a misguided attempt to assuage their guilt for the sins of their ancestors. When the US changed its immigration laws from only accepting European immigration to mostly promoting immigration from the 3rd World; IQs in the US began a precipitous drop. It also does not help that instead of being taught how to learn, many schools teach children how to think. Way more propaganda is being pushed in schools than actual education.

[@vergaburro2613]

Fuck

[@nolamik1063]

"We have to pass it to know what's in it." That was the day I realized....

[@Kevin-cm5kc]

'An examination on whether society has evolved to cater to the lowest common denominator, brought to you by raid shadow legends'

[@nimander5483]

The Babylon 5 episode "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" has a better example of the way public discourse might be devolving. It's highlighted by Delenn's comment about it. "You do not wish to know .. anything. You wish only to speak. That which you know, you ignore, because it is inconvenient. That which you do not know, you invent."

[@luciferangelica]

that the bonehead?

[@jonathanredacted3245]

@@luciferangelica 😠

[@oliverthurgood621]

"Babylon 5's a big pile of shit!"

[@hiryufilms5486]

Sounds like religion.

[@madmachanicest9955]

For me i have always love kash's turth parable. " turth is a 3 enged sword. There is your turth , there turth and the Turth. One of the most important lessons i ever heard in life. Thank you again for reminding me of how important a show B5 was. 😀👏👍

[@sokop5192]

I don't care if it's deep or dumb. I've seen it SO many times and will continue to do so whenever the urge strikes me. Love it.

[@jillhopkins4842]

Imagine you're a KZbinr wearing a shirt printed full of sponsors.

[@tylerwilliams5065]

We all can thats the thing

[@eugenesis8188]

Every time I watch this movie, I notice another detail that has turned out to have come true. Last time, I noticed how Rita was just charging that one guy money for very minimal interaction, and I realized that that's essentially what sex work is now. I've never been on only fans, but I've definitely heard stories of women charging dudes more than their rent to see pg13 rated pictures and get a message with a few emojis once in a while. Then there's something like the grant Amato case where he literally paid some model's mortgage off to chat with her for a few hours a day. I think the quote from the movie was "the world's oldest profession is a lot easier when the world is populated by morons." Its just like, yeah. At this point, you're the idiot if you actually do anything sexual for money. Belle delphine became a very famous multi millionaire, and actually getting naked ruined her career, as far as I can tell.

[@2x2is22]

It's bullshit cuz those morons drove up hooker costs through the roof. Shouldve bought hooker futures ten years ago

[@st.friendship]

Imagine believing that average IQ rises by 3 points every year 😂

[@demef758]

It all depends on who devises the IQ tests, does it not?...

[@st.friendship]

Demef sure, different test will give different results. but average iq does not rise three points every year. it doesn't even rise 3 points every generation.

[@Snormite]

I disliked the video when he said that, IQ has been dropping for decades www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/iq-rates-are-dropping-many-developed-countries-doesn-t-bode-ncna1008576

[@PalashaGabarra]

@@Snormite The source you cited is an NBC news article. I'm not even going to waste time explaining why that's a garbage source.

[@Snormite]

@Brotein 7 fine then, I guess you didn't even read the article so I will recommend you a book (scientific essay) instead: At our wit's end: why we're becoming less intelligent and what it means for the future.

[@MossySparks]

I think the movie was just inspired by the real world... So more like "Has it been true all along?"

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

DING DING DING! People forget anything predicting the future is really just social commentary on the present.

[@MossySparks]

Fuzzy Dunlop He didn’t really touch on the fact that smart people wait too long and eventually just don’t have kids while the less gifted intellectually people have like 10 kids aha I feel like that’s true to an extent. Although that doesn’t guarantee that all the kids will be dumb...

[@justingridley8786]

It was a stupid and boring movie just like napoleon dynamite was a stupid and boring movie

[@larsgadell5016]

Kinda reminds me of China syndrom- one year before Harrisburg, and Wag the Dog a year before the Irak bombings (go Clinton :P) and then this several years before Trump but almost prophetic in some aspects.

[@histguy101]

@@MossySparks I think that's an idiocracy fact, not a real world fact.

[@frankm.2850]

Idiocracy might be one of those rare examples of when toilet humor is “appropriate” since it’s there for a thematically justifiable reason, not just to get a laugh out of kids and adults with the emotional maturity of children.

[@takoluka5624]

I only watched this movie once but i still think abt the scene where joe tries to convince the council to use water for the plants 😂😂😂😂

[@dudeist_priest]

Philosophy of Jared's hair.

[@RIXRADvidz]

it's hair, it grows, you cut it, it grows again, judgement of styling is something Olde People from the 1950's do, not Modern 21st Century People. the only constant is change so in the next video his hair will be different.

[@bigstunna2049]

"The philosophy of Jared's hair and lack of hair products"

[@fangal12]

There is no philosophy to Jared's hair, some hairstyles just want to see the world burn

[@whitespyder9]

@@fangal12 thank you for this.

[@JDWonders]

@@RIXRADvidz Jared's hair teaches us about the resilience of the Human spirit. Even when cut down, it grows back. Even when combed, it becomes messy again.

[@uncomfortablecat]

Terry loves Politics and Terry loves Wisecrack

[@beastofdarknesss5822]

Terry loves love and yoghurt and everything else is dumb ; )

[@RIXRADvidz]

Terry wants my photograph, Terry says our love will last and he should know, Terry is a tough as Marlon Brando....oops sorry triggered the caramel cranial cover

[@vishishify]

Terry loves political satire

[@SirLouisTheThird]

2006 it was dumb today 2019 it's accurate

[@nat0106951]

I enjoyed it when I watched it in 2007... coz it is already almost real life accurate

[@loganiguess6812]

Bad news from the future, everyone.

[@Koozwad]

Idiocracy is a masterpiece. So many truths in it.

[@X3MAntics]

It just ages like fine wine.

[@rugvedkulkarni1593]

I feel like the eugenics themes of the movie ruin it for me. I can't watch it without comparing it to far right propaganda.

[@Koozwad]

@@rugvedkulkarni1593 Except it's the political left that would lead us(and do lead us) to this outcome.

[@rathsaugen161]

yep i agree

[@rugvedkulkarni1593]

@@Koozwad Thank you for illustrating my point perfectly.

[@coreyfisher5827]

This movie predicted the future

[@zoeyzed5127]

The future of Joe Biden not Trump as president. Biden is bringing in the Big Brother mentality.

[@Hjartulv]

it does not

[@JeanLive95]

"Why come you got no tattoo?" lmfao

[@bilpayne]

Was funny 2 months ago now they are wanting to inject a ink in our arm

[@David-gr1do]

@@bilpayne who??

[@bilpayne]

@@David-gr1do the tracking for covid

[@pryingeyes1551]

@@bilpayne A ink?

[@misterminutes4504]

@@pryingeyes1551 not inject, just stamp

[@erickschusterdeoliveira2662]

seems like half the people in the comments didn’t even watch the video.

[@justinkasey1058]

Deep AF, because everything is coming true just like 1984

[@donovanwheeler4906]

Justin Kasey you just an orange man support!!!

[@justinkasey1058]

@@donovanwheeler4906 thanks for the idiotic reply, it reinforces my original comment perfectly.

[@donovanwheeler4906]

Justin Kasey no it not because without government we have no food!

[@justinkasey1058]

@@donovanwheeler4906 once was enough no need to continue the displays.

[@sniffinggluewontkeepfamili3387]

Meta bro

[@Milo_1368]

The average IQ in the United States has been steadily DECLINING

[@BingBongPunch]

Look at immigration.

[@siukong]

Look at uneducated idiots who kneejerk point the blame at an issue they clearly know nothing about.

[@josecipriano3048]

@@BingBongPunch how many millions of inmigrants are you letting in in your country to have it make an impact on the statistics? Because of course it can't be the American people who's getting dumber (as the whole world have realized decades ago), it must be a handfull of inmigrants dragging the rate down. Brilliant.

[@RobedLogic]

@@josecipriano3048 handful lol, spend a week in southern texas.

[@josecipriano3048]

@@RobedLogic we're not talking about how many inmigrants there are, but how many of them have come recently to the US (according to you, since the iQ ratings dropped). If you want to talk about people who's ancestors came from abroad, then I have to say that in the states they amount to about 320 million people. Btw most inmigrants to the US in the last years are, on average, better educated than the natives. Maybe it's americans who caused the ratings to drop.

[@SaikoKujo]

The sports drink company was so focused on profits that they didn't care if it was destroying life. Literally. Sounds familiar.

[@johnmontoya8160]

That's why we need a unbiased free press, that will provide information to the general public. In this way the people can be informed about what corporations are doing, in this way the people can decide to purchase or not purchase the products the corporations put on the free market.

[@demef758]

Uh, companies are in business IN ORDER to make profits. If they destroy life, they won't make profits and will be dead in no time. That's how business works, Goober.

[@nightjar8898]

@@demef758 They will always have new generations of consumers to prey on.

[@OnEiNsAnEmOtHeRfUcKa]

@@demef758 > Implying the corporate fatcats at the top of the food chain care about things like "long-term sustainability". They'd outright kill their entire customer base if it made them more money for a year.

[@SaikoKujo]

@@demef758 You obviously didn't watch the movie, Dipstick.

[@НейтральныйМаппер-з2м]

Learning english and watching your videos is very enjoyable. I mean really, I watched this 16 minute video for 32 minutes because I discovered vast amount of new words. Thank you from Ukrainian dude

[@ghostface-x5e]

“burrito coverings” lmao

[@JadetheGoober]

RalphE Archive I would answer to that as if it were my name if someone randomly yelled it out in public

[@Moredhel83]

I never knew that that line meant tacos , as I thought of spices, sauces, ingredients, etc.

[@George_Costanza]

Mike Judge is the Nostradamus of our time.

[@robertslydell6990]

He's a genius.

[@6789uiop]

He sees around corners

[@MaYstruction]

Maybe you should've watched that video

[@yeahokbuddy2510]

His king of the hill novel is the best

[@estebanhughell709]

We are only a few years into idiocracy let's give it some time.

[@lk8300]

35 year old Dude probably has a whole room full of action figures and tells us not to worry we aren't becoming mindless consoomers

[@RaiderDave42069]

The only thing an IQ test measures is how good you are at IQ tests.

[@TwistersSK8]

Yeah, sure. Let's throw all the scientific evidence away just because you fell bad about your low IQ.

[@aldoushuxley5953]

that is comlpete bollocks. IQ might not paint the full picture when it comes to intelligence (in particular non human intelligence and those with severe disabilities), but is one of the best indicators in all of psychology.

[@chaosdirge4906]

@Daphne Van Zant No, IQ tests are not accurate in a-lot of ways and really for a majority of jobs they tend not to actually impact anything. I had a high IQ, I still don't have a college degree or do anything because in this world I've struggled to get any real experience and the world judges me for not having a job because I've been forced to stay at home because I've had to take care of my grandmother and my mother that died of cancer. So don't feed that bullshit. The truth of the matter is that an IQ test really can only give a basic source of generalization and many people learn in a variety of ways. Part of the reason not that many people are a part of Mensa for example is because they just don't apply. Have you seen people take an IQ test from Mensa on youtube? Do you even know the way a standardized IQ test works with Age reflecting the score and you actually getting more points based on how much older you get? The binet intelligence test was literally made to be tested on children and it ushered in a practice to make people with Low IQ's reproduce less based on discrimination. Its also designed to be manipulative with now their being colorful artwork and toys added into the mixture in the 5th rendition. I wanted to get into Psychology as a child, I know that such a test is inherently flawed. Such a test can help measure an early child's learning and cognitive ability, but for the most part as an adult sometimes answers are much more straight forward in the world and being able to decipher the most complex pattern in in a variety of images isn't going to give you the ability to make quick decisions based on what you are doing. at the end of the day that all depends on your actual training. www.thestar.com/life/2012/12/19/iq_a_myth_study_says.html There is no way to actually measure standard intelligence because everyone learns from different events and activities. medicalxpress.com/news/2019-07-common-myths-iq.html IQ tests are a sample size of mostly a single control group.

[@chaosdirge4906]

@Daphne Van Zant That's alot of text to agree on something that can be short boiled down to a large sentence. not that I mind I like people to be more educated. But jeez man, and people say I rant. This is youtube, not a college forum. I don't agree with standardized IQ tests for a-lot of the reasons you listed the even when taken to their Highest quality government officials misuse them. You can talk about the statistical analysis all day but fact of the matter is as long as IQ tests exist the common populace will misuse them .

[@chaosdirge4906]

@Daphne Van Zant Dude come on, "lol, good luck with that I'm going to double post bullshit. " Really showing that intellectual dishonesty and power play that people are fond of when they don't read people's posts. I actually read your long winded response that didn't sight any actual sources and for that matter circumvented most of the actual point with how its' misused. Yes, you don't just toss everything out most of the time, but in this case I think IQ tests should be. Their disingenuous and even misused in the psych field to a ridiculous extent and have been since their inception. And that is part of the problem, they aren't just used for that any more not to mention a-lot of them haven't been updated in years. I'm not going to list every specific reason as to why I like IQ tests in the same manor as you, I don't have time for that. and frankly when posts like that are mad I half expect them just to be copied from wikipedia. I think that the entire system needs to be rethought just like a majority of the psych studies being wrong. The field in general needs some major reworks and I don't think that they should be used as a tool for recruitment when they can be misused to the extent they are.

[@1991birthday]

Oh man, love that you did a video based on this movie because I honestly thought it was forgotten. About a year ago, I was at a con with my friend & we decided to go to a pop culture trivia game thing & competed together, we did terrible, didn’t know a lot of the answers because the questions were pretty obscure but then they asked, “what movie did they use Gatorade in the place of water?” Well, it was something along those lines & I knew it right away so I told my friend, “this is easy, the answer is Idiocracy.” He was confused, his response being, “Idio-wha?” To which I repeated what I told him, he asked me to spell it & kinda had to try to guess to remember given last time I saw the movie was when my parents rented it from Blockbuster, it was weird enough to where it stayed in my mind for so long & honestly, I didn’t understand it as well until seeing this video because I was around 16 or 17 last time I watched it so I didn’t really look to deep into it, I just thought it was a weird movie at the time. I managed to spell it right by the way & that accounted for one of the few points we actually earned in this thing. When announcing the answers for us to grade ourselves on, the people running the thing said, “I don’t think anyone remembers that movie.” Suppose they were wrong. Also, my friend ended up super curious by this, don’t remember if he ended up watching it but he looked up details about the movie during the grading, knowing that we didn’t do so hot, figured he’d do something more worth his time. He did ask me what it was about, I have a brief summary & did mention the time machine in it & he had a guess to what the end result with the time machine was going to be & I asked him if he wanted me to spoil it & he said go for it so I told him the time machine was just an amusement park ride essentially so I did ruin part of it for him, probably not enough to detour him from watching it but after seeing this, I kinda want to see the movie again given it’s been probably more than 11 years since I’ve seen it. I remember enough of the movie so plot points brought up in this video didn’t spoil me, going in depth about it & all that made me interested in watching it again.

[@OneMeanArtist]

FYI: wealthy ≠ intelligent

[@aldoushuxley5953]

who ever said that?

[@aldoushuxley5953]

@@unbeatengamer755 yes, who doesn't

[@aldoushuxley5953]

@@unbeatengamer755 op is referring to the calvinistic work morale, I assume, together with the common assumption in our culture, that morality and intelligence are linked. I think, that first way of thinking (calvinism) is not the dominant mode of thinking for modern americans anymore. Whilst we still value money, power and fame, we do not fetishize work as a moral good anymore.

[@aldoushuxley5953]

@@unbeatengamer755 My question was not in response to you, but op, because I thought, that the idea of intelligence = wealth was mentioned in the video somewhere. I agree with you on the role of luck

[@aldoushuxley5953]

@@unbeatengamer755 And with a deterministic attitude, nothing is really earned, and all is luck (as you suggested). After all, how have I earned my good work ethic, or my intelligence?

[@jotr.9786]

The fact that this title exist only proves idiocracy's point. lol

[@Kenji7761]

2019: its an allegorical warning 2020: Oh shit it's happening, why didn't anyone warn us?!

[@lucaslong76]

This movie is so underrated

[@thechaostornado6600]

no it isn't?

[@gregorynelis2474]

I use seashells

[@MeanBeanComedy]

Nah, it's shite

[@alexkirrmann8534]

It's beyond overrated if anything.

[@The_Tale_Trove]

We are living this movie now.

[@electrickid101]

This movie is about the lowering of standards, not lack of intelligence . The people can learn they choose not to

[@johnharvey5381]

I really feel like this movie is accurate. I see it everyday. Ask me how.

[@PoochieCollins]

@Harvey : how? ;-p

[@gbonkers666]

You work in customer service? Been there...man...been there...

[@edinfific2576]

Don't ask how, just look around you and you will see that anything dumb is considered "cool"!

[@fancyfeast5086]

By looking in the mirror?

[@aldoushuxley5953]

yeah, average IQ has actually been dropping in the west for 30 years (anti flynn effect)

[@PuppyLuvU2]

I loved that movie. It was amazing. I say give it another 200 years or so and we can see if they were right or not then. I mean a LOT can happen in 500 years.

[@ckhris85]

We already have a clown as a president in the white house. The movie is slowly becoming reality.

[@dickcastle]

200 ? Try today

[@risksrewardsrelics51]

Humans will be gone in 500 years.

[@nezkeys79]

I just watched it now and cried several times

[@sjelliott6660]

My parents were two dipshits, dad left when I was 4. Mom remarried a smart guy when I was 5. I turned out pretty smart having been raised by an engineer. Had I been raised by my biological father, I would have either been a video game tester or in a "never gonna make it" band of some sort.

[@Puschit1]

Or maybe you would be the star of "Ow! My balls!" so who is the smart one here, eh?

[@anomalocaris2593]

Don't diss video game testers, it is a boring and unrewarding job that needs to be done

[@fujithegreat6069]

​@anomalocaris2593 Hahaha no. Do something else that benefits humanity.

[@aidansilber2028]

We see these massive companies throughout idiocracy but never who's profiting

[@circleinforthecube5170]

the rich people got so stupid they just diverted profits to seadumping and to create money islands to solve global warming

[@c0d3x77]

How ironic that your showing a game ad for this 🤣🤣

[@carljohnson6264]

Idiocracy is funny as hell. Light up folks.

[@davidnance6594]

Carl Johnson done!!!!😁😁

[@MicahTheZombie]

light up? way ahead of you

[@kylez9094]

i was watching this on comedy central one time and they blurred out the b-f'ers main sign, but the next shot showed it unblurred in the window behind them

[@Phiery]

Bro is just describing Los Angeles

[@eldridgederring9325]

...I *would* read a book, but after watching this I think I'll go buy a desktop so I can play Raid... brought to you by Carl's Jr.

[@smurfettesmurf6723]

F*** YOU! I'M EATIN!

[@tonytrilex2555]

I think the way this guy does his hair would be perfect for a character in this movie!!!

[@themarquess]

Oh no, a future where a black president can walk around without security, actively seeks to employ the smartest person to solve county's problems and then _voluntarily_ resigns to make way for someone he deems better qualified than himself. God, I wish we were heading into a future like that!

[@poisonedbananabread1460]

How dare the president not be black at all times. Racist America am I right.

[@GAndreC]

The thing is personal scandals had no power in that future. This generation of congress still cares about those things. El presidente does not or they would had scared him off already

[@rsrt6910]

It did. It happened in late 2016. (you musta slept through it)

[@Joefest99]

It’s not deep or dumb. It’s spot-on!

[@johnbash-on-ger]

You get it.

[@kerebaka]

Yes. Except that in reality people are getting dumber on both aisles of the political spectrum. Counter-culture movements (cough *activists*) and pseudo-intellectuals are playing a major role just as well as hillbillies.

[@The6Master6Mind6]

I watched this on DVD on 06 now I'm buying it digitally on 2019. Still good by the way.

[@BenFilley]

I didn't own it on dvd, it was a suggestion from a friend way back when. I did however buy it digitally on amazon JUST to show my friends and scare the shit out of them XD

[@georgelsgomes9634]

I see Idiocracy as an almost true reality here in Brazil. lol "The idiots will take over the world; not by ability, but by quantity." - Nelson Rodrigues

[@-hello6177]

mostly a few years back, when a bunch of retards thought it was a good idea to elect a fucking socialist several times, and pretty much ruining our fucking economy

[@dddmemaybe]

But the tool beats the fool. If they are too dumb, I'd see to simple pit traps defeating armies. edit: each _nation_ exists not in a vacuum. Brazil exists the way it does in kind to the global political landscape as well.

[@fabioaraujo6593]

In Brazil we have a thinker called Nelson Rodrigues that once said : “The idiots will take over the world, not because of their abilities, but because of quantity. There are too many of them”

[@buddermonger2000]

That's untrue because you can only be an idiot if you're dumber than the norm. So in that case he's just saying the masses are dumb.

[@SuzanaNature]

@@buddermonger2000 not really. You are considered idiot if you are bellow the point that it is decided to be the threshold between smart and stupid. The question is where to set this point and what metrics to use to set it. The fact that there is a bigger number of stupid people will only mean this point will be further away from the norm on the right, and most likely that the norm will be way closer to the plot axis on the left. That being said. Yes, Nelson Rodrigues was implying the masses are dumb and are getting dumber by the day.

[@buddermonger2000]

@@SuzanaNature Clearly you're pretty out of touch. First that you think they're are more idiots on the right when they actually have more rational arguments on a lot of issues than the left if you bother to hear them. And you also kind of forget that the metrics decide the norm. But the norm is the average. It's like a bell curve and because of that there's only the same amount of idiots as intelligent individuals. It's a misnomer to say there's more idiots and to think that is arrogant because that's saying that (most likely you) are smarter than the masses because they're all stupid compared to you. You can be average, above, or below in every area. However keep it mind what an average is.

[@alexkirrmann8534]

Yeah well I can make a great case that says Nelson Rodriguez is a fucking moron. Case and point that stupid fucking thing you quoted him on.

[@SuzanaNature]

@@buddermonger2000 well, I meant left and right not in a political way, but in actually left and right side of the plot, you know, the mathematical thing, in a Cartesian coordinate system. The metrics determine everything, but in this specific case it I was talking about how to decide who is smart and who is dumb. You know, IQ is a metric option, but also there are so many other ways to evaluate how smart an individual is. But lets take IQ as the metric in this example. If we say only people over 120 in IQ is smart, there would be less individuals over 120 than bellow. So we could assume more stupid people. (And the assumption of more stupid people is not in any way a commentary on today's world but on the quote posted above.) Now, if you are not familiar with the normal distribution plot a suggest you google it and read again my first comment while looking at the plot and you will understand all I said about: Left, Right, Threshold Point, Norm position. Also since you asked me to keep in mind what average is, I must also remember you that if we have a group of 10 people and all of the then have an IQ of 80, the average is 80, but if we have 5 people with 100 and 5 with 60 the average would still be 80, and (I kid you not) if most are stupids, lets say 8 have 37.5 and only 2 have 250 the average is still 80. So you can assume more stupid people and it could not mean any difference in the average. And in case you are wondering I don't think I am one of the smart people, to be honest I am pretty average with tendencies to bellow average most of the time.

[@balboa0621]

Time to revisit this analysis in 2024