1. Idiocracy is not a film about television and fast food. It is a film about negative selection – what happens when a system, over enough time, consistently rewards stupidity and punishes thought. The mechanism requires no malice. It requires only that compliance be more comfortable than intelligence, and that comfort be the only value on offer.
2. Communism ran this experiment at gunpoint, in real time. The intelligent were the first problem – they noticed things, named things, remembered things. So they were removed. What remained was a civilization that had learned, across generations, that thinking loudly was dangerous and thinking quietly was exhausting. So it stopped.
3. The system then promoted accordingly. Loyalty over competence. Conformity over creativity. The reliable mediocrity over the brilliant deviation. This is not a side effect. It is the intended output. A society of obedient workers — remember Boxer from Animal Farm? — but without the sincerity – compliant units who had forgotten there was ever another option.
4. Brawndo has electrolytes. The sentence is repeated with increasing confidence as counter-evidence accumulates. This is not just stupidity – it is also the mature form of zakłamanie. The slogan replaces the argument because the argument was never the point.
5. The West is running the same experiment, more slowly, through screens, through the managed demolition of educational standards, through the replacement of argument with slogan and merit with grievance. Communism first used a gun. The new version uses an algorithm and a feelings-first curriculum.
6. The destination is identical. The Idiocracy is not a warning about the future. In some places it is already the second five-year plan.
The older I get, the more I believe happiness lives in the ordinary. Pets. Plants. A quiet morning coffee. Blue sky. Cotton clouds. Birds singing. The gentle breeze through the trees. A clean, cosy house. Good food. Good hearted simple poeple. So much of life’s beauty is quiet, gentle, and already here. And somehow, one of the sweetest feelings is knowing I get to wake up and meet it all again tomorrow.
Lithuanian composer and conductor Mindaugas Piečaitis led an orchestra performing a piece inspired by Nora the cat, who famously “plays” the piano.
The unusual performance was met with enthusiastic applause and a standing ovation.
I think a lot of people don't understand the fascination much of the American right has with Japan. It's not so much that we are obsessed with Japanese culture, as fun and interesting as it is. It's simply because it's like looking into the kind of country we could have had.
A homogenous nation with shared culture and values. Low violent crime, clean streets, great food. It's everything we want. Visiting Japan is like window shopping in stores we can't afford. You go there and see that our dreams are actually entirely feasible, but we failed to allow ourselves to happen. You can walk down the street in a city and not worry about a 75 IQ gang banger killing you. You don't need to worry non stop about getting mugged by someone who is barely functional enough to form a coherent sentence.
You can walk down the street and not see trash everywhere. Everything doesn't stink of weed. Everyone isn't constantly loud and angry.
It's like a mirror with a filter on it. It shows us what life could be.
To the people of Japan, I can't stress this enough, you must protect your nation and never let it change. Do not allow it to be overtaken by foreigners. Do not slip. You will end up destroyed like us.
@CaryKelly11 Boy do I get it. I just started churning my own butter from organic Kolona heavy whipping cream, and adding in Baja Gold sea salt. There's just something to knowing exactly what is in your own home made butter. 😎
@CaryKelly11 My first year in college, I had a choice to make each Sunday. Either go see a movie OR eat for the rest of the week. I live in a veritable abundant reality today. This helps me to remember and be very grateful.