We're Not Getting Dumber, Damnit.

I hate the movie Idiocracy.

With a passion.

This isn't because of artistic merit or actual quality of the film. It is because it has become an excuse for every smarmy cockhole on the planet to say "oh, the plebeians are taking over (and yes, some people have actually used the word plebeian. Well, they tried, until I forced them to eat their own eyes)  and this is what humanity is going to look like." We're not. The uneducated, the unintelligent, have always outnumbered the genuinely smart and they're definitely still here. In fact, there's a lot more, now. But this movie is like masturbation to the people with superiority complexes. The people who say the world is getting dumber almost never include themselves, as if they're some paragon of intelligence and wisdom. They're not. They're a paragon of cocks. The creme de la creme of anal hemmhoraging.


It's tantamount to auto-fellatio. Of course we're not getting dumber. Why the Hell would we be? I know a hell of a lot more than the average medieval peasant and so does everyone else. I know more than my great-great grandparents did at the turn of the century. I can tell you a little bit about string theory, I understand prose, I can tell you everything about the Burgundians and the Franks during the Dark Ages.


So no, we're not getting dumber. It's just people who need a reason to feel superior now have an outlet.