What a coincidence that I just watched "Idiocracy" for the first time.

Thanks for the quality

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*quality

And while I worry about humanity's future in general, I'm happy to know that there is some dispute over the Idiocracy view that intelligent people breed less. See excerpt from following link: http://www.jstor.org/pss/1972320

"the literature exhibits an apparent consensus on the relationship between education/literacy and fertility. Critical review and comparison, however, reveal this widespread agreement to be superficial and illusory."

See! I have balls too bitches!!!

*quality

And while I worry about humanity's future in general, I'm happy to know that there is some dispute over the Idiocracy view that intelligent people breed less. See excerpt from following link: http://www.jstor.org/pss/1972320

"the literature exhibits an apparent consensus on the relationship between education/literacy and fertility. Critical review and comparison, however, reveal this widespread agreement to be superficial and illusory."

See! I have balls too bitches!!!

Is he on a boat, or what's with the camera work?
Sir Digby Chicken Ceasar camera going on there.

oh yeah, fuck stupid people! (but make sure you use condoms, otherwise we'll have Idiocracy in a few hundred years)

President Camacho has arrived!

Wow you're a racist cuntbag.

I'm gonna take a stab and assume you never went to college. Yay for generalities!

>> ^chilaxe:

You earn less because you're paying for their welfare benefits, Idiocracy-style.

So you are making a judgement based on how they look? Specifically, by the culture that they appear to belong to? All the more reason this video needed to sift.>> ^chilaxe:

>> ^Fusionaut:
You're assuming that they are poor and unemployed. I see no indication that they are either. >> ^chilaxe:
You earn less because you're paying for their welfare benefits, Idiocracy-style.


Probabilistic correlations can be drawn from indicators of sub-cultures.

>> ^Fusionaut:

You're assuming that they are poor and unemployed. I see no indication that they are either. >> ^chilaxe:
You earn less because you're paying for their welfare benefits, Idiocracy-style.



Probabilistic correlations can be drawn from indicators of sub-cultures.

You're assuming that they are poor and unemployed. I see no indication that they are either. >> ^chilaxe:

You earn less because you're paying for their welfare benefits, Idiocracy-style.

You earn less because you're paying for their welfare benefits, Idiocracy-style.

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Idiocracy: The Game!

@dystopianfuturetoday @NetRunner

I think Sam Harris (in this) is closest to the mark you're both going for when he says "Very few people are comfortable to being enemies of reason."

I think you can stretch that statement a long way. By using, as he suggests, words like evidence and reason, you can push people into admitting they are being unreasonable or at least concede that their arguments don't have evidentiary support. These two argument techniques should already be the basis for intellectual conversation and debate. Unfortunately that isn't always the case.

People easily fall into logical fallacies because they're ignorant of what they are and of how decieving they can be. People also are very unwilling to change their minds once made up, as you pointed out. Beyond that though, majority of the population is ill-equipped when it comes to critical thinking skills.

Dystopianfuture is right to admit faults, and (not to simply follow suit with an unoriginal idea but hey it's a Catch-22) let me join in in admitting that I am guilty of bad/emotional rhetoric but I try my best to provide evidence when called for and to be a rational person in general.

I hope others will do the same lest we end up like Idiocracy (though remember intelligence is not a prerequisite for reproduction, oh shit nevermind, looks like we're fucked, exibit 1, exibit 2)

Just saw this flick again last night, and I've got to say, it's a lot smarter and better put together than I initially thought. It's the excruciatingly confusing tone that makes this thing work for me. Think Idiocracy meets David Lynch meets Hunter S. Thompson. It's messy, but intentionally messy because it allows it's critique of American shallowness to permeate every aspect of the film's production. Still, you are going to want to medicate heavily before viewing for maximum enjoyment.

I don't see where teaching kids basic food facts would be a bad thing. Likewise showing them the results of bad choices as in Supersize Me or the book Fastfood Nation.
All insults to bad parents aside, problems also arise when big business/lobby groups want to get involved in what gets taught to our kids.

A little bit extreme but funny link by the way!

>> ^hpqp:

Stupid kids grow up to be stupid parents and have lots of stupid kids who grow up to be stupid parents and (et cetera ad nauseum)... at some point someone has to step in. I for one am all for mandatory school viewings of "Supersize Me" as early as preschool. If kids are going to be brought to poison outlets by their fat, lazy-ass and empty-headed parents, at least let them know what their in for.
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