Watched Idiocracy last night, a broad satire on the idea that dumbing down and the superior breeding rate of stupid people could bring about a society of morons.
Forget about the slightly eugenicist concept that stupid people’s children are inevitably stupid and the film is pretty good. It is appallingly bad in many places, but this badness is justified by the premise. You may not like Swift’s Yahoos but you can’t deny his satiric purpose in showing them to you.
All that is most vulgar about modern life is here:
- corporate takeover (gatorade is in the drinking fountains)
- obsession with sex
- constant schadenfreude on television
- diet of junk food
- celebrity politics
The great subtlety of the film is that it is unrelenting in its presentation of dumbness. No beauty or truth was allowed to survive in this world.
The moral, such as there was one, is that you should do things with your life rather than sit around doing nothing.
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