• blazeknave@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It’s been like 15 years of me saying at first, parallels with Idiocracy, but the last 10 or so: “you know how the beginning of every dystopian end times film begins with the news montage about natural disasters, rising populism, income inequality, and whatnot? Have you read any headlines?”

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      5 months ago

      Idiocracy is a better timeline, the president tried to put the smartest person in charge. Good luck getting that in our reality.

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      5 months ago

      parallels with Idiocracy

      Bro, life’s been like that for some people, for forever.

      A 145 IQ isn’t that crazy, like 1 in 1200 people. About the same frequency as someone transitioning.

      But an intellectual deficiency is defined as 30 points lower than frame of reference, which is normally 100.

      For someone at 145, about 84% of humanity is at least 30 points lower. And in your day to day life, you’re not gonna run into that other 16% often

      So if one of them was the reference point, like Not Sure in Idiocracy, then this is already idiocracy.

      “Ignorance is bliss” isn’t just a saying, being intelligent fucking sucks.

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        5 months ago

        “You think Einstein walked around thinkin’ everyone was a bunch of dumb shits?”

        I’m not even at 145 and would never compare myself to Einstein, but this quote has resonated SO HARD over the years.