NP - PSA - marching morons

[Charles Albert]

Since I've only seen the first 20 minutes of Idiotocracy, I will let Wiki be
our guide...

The 2006 comedy movie *Idiocracy
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy>*adds a few twists to the
"Marching Moron" effect: in this story, two
subjects participating in a suspended-animation experiment ("the most
average guy" in the Army and a common prostitute) sleep for 500 years, only
to awaken in a future so incredibly dumbed-down that the ability to give the
answer to "2 + 3" qualifies one as a genius. In this variation, the cultural
elite has become extinct, but the decaying society is kept somewhat
functional by machines, and the government is actually run on behalf of a
few mega-corporations. These corporations are staffed and directed by morons
with the limited aid of management computers programmed during the more
intelligent past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons

love,
cfa

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Robin Landseadel <
robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Nov 6, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Charles Albert wrote:
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>  He is rapidly approaching Robert Goulet status...
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> Pre or post "Smell of Fear"?
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> On Nov 6, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Charles Albert wrote:
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>   if anyone else went looking for The Marching Morons when it first came up
>> . . .
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>
> Wait a minute! Is this the source story for Idiocracy?
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>
>
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