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Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura

Idiocracy is real.



10 Things 'Idiocracy' Predicted Would Happen, and Sadly Already Have

"Idiocracy" is coming faster than expected.

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Best of Idiocracy - Welcome to Costco


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Idiocracy "I like money"

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Let’s Examine The Many Signs That Mike Judge’s ‘Idiocracy’ Is Nearly Upon Us

By Jason Tabrys / 10.17.14



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Mike Judge’s Idiocracy faced the indignity of a burn-off when it came time to make its debut back in 2006, opening in only 135 theaters with nearly no promotion. Written off by the powers that be, the sci-fi comedy persevered when it hit DVD and became a cult classic for cynics who were delighted by a less-than-cheery representation of the future that took into account our seeming downward intellectual trajectory.
There’s no sugar-coating it: this movie feels a little bit angry at mankind, with Judge casting Luke Wilson as Joe, a slacker soldier who wakes up from a cryo-sleep after 500 years to find a bent world that has been pushed to the brink by our recklessness and stupidity. More than in anything that he had done before or anything that he has done since, Judge pulled no punches as he delivered a big screw you to gluttons, politicians, the media, our commercial culture, celebrities on the whole, and those who thumb their cheese-dust covered noses at ambition and intelligence. A more impressive (and depressing) feat than that, though, is that Judge’s view of the future now looks a little bit like the here and now.

And the moronic shall inherit the Earth



According to Idiocracy, the cause of our oncoming societal slip toward idiocy is that dumb people have more children than smart people. While that may feel like a generalization there is research to back up that way of thinking.

A provocative new study suggests human intelligence is on the decline. In fact, it indicates that Westerners have lost 14 I.Q. points on average since the Victorian Era.
What exactly explains this decline? Study co-author Dr. Jan te Nijenhuis, professor of work and organizational psychology at the University of Amsterdam, points to the fact that women of high intelligence tend to have fewer children than do women of lower intelligence.

Team Clevon is winning and there is nothing that we can do about it.
“Our best minds were too busy engineering baldness cures and prolonged erections.”

When Judge signals that humanity’s fall off the cliff can’t be saved by the best and brightest because they are otherwise engaged it feels more like an observation than a prophecy since we’ve been collectively flush (I’m sorry) with boner pills since the late 90s. Broad spectrum anti-virals and cancer cures? Not so much.

Ow! My Balls!



Obviously, our cultural war against testicles began long before Idiocracy with Jackass and almost every prize-winning video to ever appear on American’s Funniest Home Videos, but the dream of an actual Ow! My Balls! type of series is alive in Japan. Until someone wisely and sadly brings that concept to our shores we’ll just have to settle for watching real housewives free the beast on each other. Hold me closer tiny dancing Alfonso Ribeiro. Make us forget the dark future that is on the horizon for reality TV.

“The English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valley girl, inner city slang, and various grunts.”



Totes y’all.

Everything an ad and an ad on everything
Though advertisements litter city streets, I won’t go so far as to say that it mirrors the over-commercialized version of the future on display in Idiocracy. What I do wonder, however, is if one day we might see wearable tech and augmented reality merge to paint the world in digital ads and create something that is akin to what we see in the film.
As for the corporate logo patterns on the clothing of the time, it’s hard to contend that we’re not already well on our way to that since we’ve been walking billboards for clothing companies since shirts with a tiny alligator badge were cool the first time.

Portion Sizes



It seems like every week we see some upstart burger place release the Kraken of hamburgers with an extreme name like The Widowmaker, The Mile High, or The Monster. I like to think that the “Extra Big *ss Taco” would fit in nicely alongside those kinds of options, but I would have also loved to have seen what that behemoth looked like. It’s sad, once we climbed mountains, now our greatest adventurers try to conquer epic food piles. It’s like John Candy’s character in The Great Outdoors is their Edmund Hillary.

The Political Process



After ingeniously escaping from prison and then getting captured again, Joe is brought to Washington to solve all of the world’s problems after President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho finds out that Joe is the smartest man in the world (by default). Good thing that we, as a nation, have never anointed someone as a savior and expected them to solve all of our problems in the course of one week…
The weight of modesty sinks people in the public square nowadays. If you want to be a celebrity, you need to get on a reality show and lose your mind for the pleasure of the masses. Sadly, the same thing can be said of politics, where the loudest and surest voices often get the most attention, regardless of the content of their words.
President Camacho is a cross between Randy “Macho Man” Savage and James Brown. He delivers sermons to the voters and Congress while eagerly over-promising the hollow plans that he concocts to save his *ss. There is no way that Terry Crews’ insane character wouldn’t become America’s straight-talk sweetheart and the man that people most want to crush a beer with. He’d win the presidency in a walk and then he’d take a victory lap on Monday Night Raw.
Judge’s take on the corrupting force of big corporate money in politics is also notable and prophetic (in a loose sense), though I wish that in real life politicians were as obvious and shameless as David Herman is about his fiscal priorities.



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So, are we doomed to spend the next 500 years stacking garbage and eating progressively larger hamburgers until Idiocracy becomes fully realized? Despite the evidence that we are on our way, nothing is promised so there’s still time for us to exercise, read the great Russian novels, and transform into better versions of ourselves. Or not. What do we care what the Earth looks like in 500 years? We’ll all be dead anyway, so lets all go to Starbucks and forget about the whole thing.

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