NP - PSA - marching morons

[Joe Allonby]

They water their crops with gatorade because the commercials say that
is has electrolytes. The hero is the guy who convinces them to try
water instead.


On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since I've only seen the first 20 minutes of Idiotocracy, I will let Wiki be
> our guide...
>
> The 2006 comedy movie 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:
>>
>>> He is rapidly approaching Robert Goulet status...
>>
>> Pre or post "Smell of Fear"?
>>
>>
>> On Nov 6, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Charles Albert wrote:
>>
>>>  if anyone else went looking for The Marching Morons when it first came
>>> up . . .
>>
>> Wait a minute! Is this the source story for Idiocracy?
>>
>>
>
>