It makes me really sad to realize Mike Judge was only wrong about one thing in Idiocracy… that it would take 400 years for us to get there…because here we are, not even 20 years later.
It makes me really sad to realize Mike Judge was only wrong about one thing in Idiocracy… that it would take 400 years for us to get there…because here we are, not even 20 years later.
I don’t think IQ ever considered willful ignorance though. It’s meant to be based off the average intelligence of a population, but how do you factor in those that would rather be angry and hateful than think for half a second?
That’s never been new…
And it’s a very common coping mechanism. They do think, it’s just not productive and most people get frustrated and upset.
There’s plenty of people who have voted the same as me for president for 20 years, and when I try to explain that what we’re doing clearly isn’t working…
They just call me nonsensical names.
They’re not choosing to do that, they’re just failing to understand and getting upset about it. And with an IQ differential greater than 30 points, both people will be very frustrated.
The vast majority of people believe they’re the good guys and what theyre doing will help everyone. They’re just not smart enough to see the obvious result, so when people try to explain it, it conflicts with their current behavior and they reject it.