THE WRITER BEHIND IDIOCRACY IS A LITTLE CONCERNED, BECAUSE
IT TURNS OUT THAT IS 2006 CALLED FAVORITE, IN GEOGRAPHY, ENDED
UP BEING MORE THAN JUST SATIRE, IT ENDED UP BEING REAL-LIFE.
THESE ARE COMMENTS FROM
ETAN COHEN, WHO TWEETED ABOUT HOW
DEVASTATING OUR CURRENT STATE IS.
HE SAYS, "I NEVER EXPECTED IN GEOGRAPHY TO BECOME A
DOCUMENTARY."
THE AUTHOR SAYS, "I THOUGHT THE WORST THING THAT
WOULD COME THROUGH WITH EVERYONE
WEARING CROCS."
THAT IS FUNNY.
MIKE JUDGE DIRECTED GEOGRAPHY, I SAW A WILD BACK, I DON'T
REMEMBER IT THAT WELL, BUT I KNOW SOME GUYS IN A STUDIO
REMEMBER BETTER, BUT I THINK A REALITY SHOW CONTESTANT
BECOMES PRESIDENT?
AND ALL THE SPONSORS HAVE TAKEN OVER EVERYTHING, INCLUDING
THE PRESIDENCY.
THAT PART IS SUPER FRUIT.
IN GEOGRAPHY WAS DONE BEFORE CITIZENS UNITED.
MONEY WAS IN POLITICS ANYWAY, CITIZENS UNITED JUST PUT IT
ON STEROIDS.
IT WAS RELEASED IN 2006, WHEN THE GEORGE BUSH
MINISTRATION WAS STILL IN OFFICE, THERE WAS ALL KINDS
OF CRAZY STUFF, ILLEGAL WIRETAPPING, AND THE NOTION
THAT ONLY STUPID PEOPLE ARE BREEDING, IT IS REAL.
I WAS SURPRISED IT WAS ONLY CONSIDERED SATIRE, I FELT LIKE
IT WAS COMMENTARY ON MODERN DAY SOCIETY, BUT JUST EXAGGERATING A
LITTLE BIT.
EXAGGERATING A LOT, BUT IT TURNS OUT, IT HAPPENED
QUICKER THAN WE IMAGINED.
THERE WAS A GUY WHO WAS FROZEN IN TIME, I'M BUTCHERING THE
STORY, BUT SOMETHING ALONG THOSE
LINES, AND IT HAD GONE ON FURTHER UNTIL THERE WAS NO
INTELLIGENT PEOPLE.
BUT THE BREEDING THING I'M NOT BUYING, THE DUMBING DOWN OF
AMERICA, REALITY SHOWS AND ALL THE DIFFERENT CORPORATE
TAKEOVERS, ETC.,
THAT PART IS TOTALLY TRUE, IT IS JUST A MATTER OF DEGREE.
THERE ARE SURVEYS AND STUDIES, AND HARD DATA TO PROVE THAT
MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE OPTING OUT OF HAVING KIDS BECAUSE THEY
WANT TO GET EDUCATION, THEY WANT TO ESTABLISH A CAREER, AND THEN
BY THE TIME THEY DO ALL THAT STUFF IT BECOMES INCREASINGLY
DIFFICULT TO ACTUALLY CONCEIVED AND HAVE THE KIDS.
THAT KIND OF STUFF IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
ETAN COHEN AND MIKE JUDGE WERE NOT UNAWARE OF THIS, OF
COURSE THEY INTENDED IT AS A COMMENT ON SOCIETY.
WITH A HUMOROUS TWIST.
PART, WAS THE PRESIDENT IN THE MOVIE A REALITY STAR OR A
WRESTLER?
HE WAS A THREE-TIME CHAMPION WRESTLER, EX-PORN STAR.
AND THE PART I LIKED ABOUT THE MOVIE WAS, I SAW IT WHEN IT CAME
OUT, THE PART I LIKED, AND ANA HIT IT ON THE NOSE, THE
SO-CALLED PEOPLE WHO ARE SMART, THEY KEEP PUTTING OFF HAVING
CHILDREN, AND WHEN THAT CLOCK RUNS OUT, WHO IS GOING TO
BE IN PLACE TO HAVE CHILDREN?
PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT SO SMART.
SO I BUY THAT.
THAT IS NOT TO SAY THAT THE ONLY PEOPLE HAVING KIDS
TODAY ARE IDIOTS, BUT YOU DO SEE THAT PEOPLE ARE GETTING
OLDER AND OLDER, AS THEY TRY TO CONCEIVE, AND IT IS GETTING
HARD TO DO THAT.
BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS CONTINUE TO KICK.
MEANWHILE, IN MORE RELIGIOUS PLACES, WHERE THEY TELL YOU
NOT TO GET AN EDUCATION AND JUST BELIEVE WHAT YOUR RELIGIOUS
TEXT SAYS ñ THAT IS TRUE IN AMERICA, WE RECENTLY DID A
STORY ABOUT THESE GUYS TO SAY, IF THE APPLE WHEN IT IS
RIGHT, MAKE SURE YOU GET MARRIED WHEN YOU ARE YOUNG.
THESE ARE FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS.
IN IRAN I THINK THE AVERAGE AGE IS TWENTY-FIVE, BECAUSE THEY ARE
HAVING SEX AND GETTING MARRIED SO EARLY, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT
ALLOWED TO HAVE SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE, SO THEY ARE LIKE,
LET'S GET MARRIED RIGHT AWAY!
UNFORTUNATELY THE LEAST EDUCATED
ARE HAVING MORE KIDS.
I DON'T MEAN TO PICK ON IRAN, I DO NEED TO PICK ON
FUNDAMENTALISTS THOUGH, AND IN THE END YOU THAT DONALD
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT.
DEVASTATING.