Thursday, August 7, 2014

Gizmodo users should be sterlized (just kidding, I support reproductive rights as long as it also includes your option to have an abortion....which by the way, do you really think you would make a good mother??)

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/idiocracy-is-a-cruel-movie-and-you-should-be-ashamed-fo-1553344189/+AnnaleeNewitz

Oh Gizmodo, I know I didn't expect much from you, but ripping on Idiocracy? Really? Your main point is that eugenics isn't a way to fix society? Well duh!

The problem with society is not that people are idiots, though they are.  It's that there is this belief that the idiots and the non-idiots can be separated from the geniuses and the geniuses need to do there best to watch out for the poor little idiots with their great public policy.  Like the US liberating Iraq, those poor idiots didn't even know they needed liberating!

Also this thought process gives rise to the ability to keep a barrier between classes in place.  Ask Zizek.

But I digress you see, because the point of Idiocracy was not a warning against unchecked baby-making.  But A SATIRE ON THE PRESENT.  Good job missing the point Gizmodo.

Idiocracy was a great movie, and yes everyone loves referring to it because it is a staple of culture to reflect on culture. And sometimes things are stupid. Some are Brawndo stupid, people repeating things that they heard as if they had to be true. And sometimes things are an orchestra of electric guitars stupid, which is also awesome.