Idiocracy

July 22nd, 2008 1 Comment

Someone who won’t fess up to it told me about Idiocracy, a 2006 Mike Judge movie starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph. The premise behind the movie is simple. Two “average” people in 2005 are placed in hibernation, supposedly for one year. Something goes wrong, and they are frozen for 500 years. Over those years, the average IQ of humans declines as the stupids have more kids, and the supposedly “higher intellectuals” over-analyze everything and have fewer kids. Over the next five hundred years, corporations truly run everything, except government, and pay people to name their children after their products and to say their tag lines.

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Anyway, I’m wondering if it won’t take more than just one hundred years to reach the point of Idiocracy that is portrayed. How often do you see some dumbass doing some dumbass thing (like using your camera phone to take a picture of your crap and email it to someone)? You probably see it more than you think you do. Since you see it more, it becomes more acceptable in your society. Look at the Jerry Springer show. Just a couple of years ago, people would be embarrassed to be seen in the position that they are now embracing on TV. Right now, the Jerry Springer show is looking for just some of the following:

  • Is your life like a Springer Show?
  • Are you having an affair but feel it’s your lover’s fault you’re cheating?
  • Is your marriage falling apart because of cheating? Do you want to confront that person on our show?
  • Are you too sexy for regular TV? Want to be a part of Jerry Springer’s Pay-Per-View?
  • Do you need the Springer Show to come to your trailer park?
  • Are you not willing to give your ex a divorce and still want to work things out?
  • Are you pregnant by someone else’s man?
  • Are you trying to choose between 2 or more lovers?

If you are one of these people, Jerry Springer wants you! Instead of working out your own situations in the privacy of your home, you want to try to tell the world that you “don’t know me, you can’t judge me,” repeatedly until you lose the shame of your privacy.

I took the truck into downtown Oakland to deliver some toner. By the time I got to the end of the street, I noticed how hot it was in the truck. Someone turned on the heater. It was cold the last time someone took the truck somewhere. Understandable. By the time I turned the corner and got to the stop light, I noticed how cold it was getting in the truck. Someone turned on the air conditioner. Just to recap, both the A/C and the heater were on. I can only imagine what someone was thinking. “It’s getting kinda cold in here, I guess I’ll turn on the heater.” Instead of, “it’s getting kinda cold in here, I guess I’ll turn OFF THE A/C.”

The simple fact that some people go apeshit over whatever the hell Britney is wearing today, whether Lindsay is gay or bulimic or not, or however Matthew smells like is proof of the idiocracy. Well, maybe it’s proof that people are bored and instead of reading a book or building a bridge or curing diabetes, they would rather worry about something that will never change the world for the better. Actually, that’s a pretty good definition of the idiocracy.

The idiocracy continues at an unchecked rate. How many times each day do you see the idiocracy walking around? At first you don’t see it, because you are already there. You are part of the equation. By removing yourself from the equation, and turning into an observer, you will start to see the idiocracy. It’s like a human Heisenberg principle. You can’t measure the idiocracy and observe it at the same time. First, you will start to see a little here and there. Look at these like a researcher and you will see more and more. Point out the idiocracy to others. Some will see it as idiocracy, some will see it as normal behavior. Those who see it as normal behavior need to have the crap slapped out of them. It’s time to stop the idiocracy. It’s time to make America great again. It’s time to be challenged by crossword puzzles or game shows. It’s time to slap the crap out of whoever made this video:

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December 22nd, 2007 No Comments

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The system is being verified by a third party for correct advertising bids, and PPP is the only online advertising medium that is verified by an “independent” and unbiased third party. Take a look at what this can offer you: 100% ad conversion, weekly payouts, the ability to place it on all your pages in all your domains, and residual income. Honestly, it’s a no brainer, but get more information and make your own decision.

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Skylark Apartments

October 18th, 2007 No Comments

An Open Letter to Equity Apartments, property owners of Skylark Apartments in Union City:

As you know, since you are one of my loyal 15 or so readers, I have been without a car for about a month, and have been walking to BART. Every Thursday, rain or shine, and we’ve had a bit of rain lately, your sprinklers do a very good job of watering everything except the grass. By the time I get to your sidewalk, a whole tanker truck full of water is in the gutter. The sprinklers, if they can even be called that, are spraying across the sidewalk, drenching the concrete. I’m glad to see such wonderful work in our drought-plagued state.

Please get your maintenance crew out there to fix this because I’m tired of getting wetter than wet, even when it’s not raining. I know rents are high, but probably half of that goes to your water. In other words, fix your sprinklers and BLOW IT OUT YOUR PIE HOLE!

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My Weird Dream

October 15th, 2007 No Comments

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Anyway, I was some sort of secret, undercover guy. The scene opened at night time. I had a storefront to complete my image of whatever it was that I was pretending to do to be legit. The next morning, the storefront would be vacant, just as it was three days ago, with a big black and yellow “For Lease” sign in the window. I walked over to the place where I would be waiting for some guy. He was the type of guy who people were starting to believe didn’t exist. Anytime reporters or the public would call, he was out of the office. You would end up with a message from him on your answering machine, but no one ever spoke to him, directly or over the phone.

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As the fifteen or so “regular visitors” to the site have noticed, I have a new layout for the site. I was getting tired of the orange, and thought I’d switch to a cleaner template. Hopefully it will make for an increase in return visitors. I certainly enjoy it more.

The homework assignment for October is to read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Come November, we’ll discuss how the hippies of today used Brave New World to shape their views of the way the world should be run. Every couple of years I think it’s important to re-read this and other works like it that show a Utopian future, remembering that they were written as satire or warnings. By the way, watching the movie does not count for our purposes.

Anyway, read, read, read, and we’ll discuss in November, while finding time to work on your National Novel Writing Month Novel and work and sleep and everything else that you usually do. After all, what’s an extra 1,700 words each and every day?

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