Idiocracy (Movie Watch)

Well, I sure hope it we don't become like that although the focus on sex kinda reminds me of gay people I've come across in two gay websites.

It would seem gay men think of nothing but sex with other men and how to get quickies, whereas gay women think of nothing except whether the next woman is gay, straight or bi, and furthermore, whether femme, butch or something else.

This movie was brought to my attention while reading the Sept 2010 issue of Discover magazine. Shows what reading a mag like that can do. Influentially educational. That's what all mags should do.

Kathless McAuliffe did a piece on The Incredible Shrinking Brain, with the mind-blowing (or not) report that our brains are actually shrinking through the millennia. And not many people (scientists) know this. Only a "tight-knit circle" of paleontologists are aware and quietly wondering whether and why we are getting dumber.

Now, it's understandable lay people like us aren't aware, but why aren't even the "experts" knowing this? Why the hush hush among the paleontologists? Afraid of crying wolf?

Among the speculation, it was mentioned that it could be something like the Idiocracy theory--the 2006 (2005) Idiocracy movie by Mike Judge. An average Joe Bowers gets picked to be in a top secret hibernation government experiment that went on for longer than expected. When he woke 500 years later, he found he was the smartest person on the entire planet (or USA) that had degenerated to a state of sex, middle fingers and nothing else.

What was this Idiocracy theory movie? I had to find out (proving that I wasn't going to just sit around like an idiot and not check it out).

It turned out to be a very good movie. But according to the factoids, was actually showed minimally (even excluding New York) without publicity because it was prematurely thought to be not good and was sat on for 1 year.

Well.

Let's hope again that the world or rather, Humanity, would not degenerate into this sort of slum. It's a sad situation that we might never get out off without a Joe Bower.

I still want to think of us heading towards 24th century Picardian Utopia (if you watch Captain Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek The Next Generation)--where the future and money are finally separate, where people work for the betterment of themselves and humanity, where I wouldn't want my DNA to be taken apart in a transporter and beamed down to wherever and reassembled (in this, I am with McCoy, the doctor from the old Star Trek).

Enjoy watching Idiocracy on Megavideo, although it will stop after about an hour, to say you have exceeded the time limit. Bummer, but it's a pretty clear video (except for the annoying German subs that go across). It's very helpful that the clicked links are crossed out so nicely to remember: http://watch-movies.ro/movie/idiocracy_%282006%29

To watch the movie to its completion, you can continue at Tudou where it has 7 parts. After megavideo, start from part 6 at Tudou. Or you could just watch at Tudou, starting from part 1. Let the opening ad countdown, then click on the words that appear on the top left corner to start the movie. http://www.tudou.com/playlist/p/l3739528i3955602.html

Enjoy and hope it's just a movie.