I think I saw Mansions of the Gods, but it didn’t really stick with me as much as Twelve Tasks. I will give in Britain a watch.

Well my country (bit unfair to say that I know, our piece of shit Hungarian government did everything it could to keep Krasznahorkai down) just got it’s second Nobel prize in Literature so I’m a bit biased, but it didn’t really feel like a marketing stunt to me.

The twelve tasks of Asterix was where the series peaked change my mind

Not every branch of farming can be internationally competitive, but some of those are still needed for local security.

but but but easy to theme

I have to admit it’s been some time since I saw the movie, but I have three relevant scenes in mind.

First is the beggining where they lay down that joke.

The next is in the ending, where the main cast has children and the children of the smart guy are smart and the children of the dumb guy are dumb.

Judging from these too it seems like in the word of Idiocracy eugenics works, as in smart people really produce smart offspring, which pretty much makes it a problematic 2000s comedy, so you’re welcome.

Now the next scene is also from the start of the movie. It could be summed up as: “Stupid people kept doing stupid things, while smart people were occupied with inventing medicines for stopping baldness and enlarging penises.”

And that last one sells it for me. A society doesn’t decay because of genetic drift, it decays because smart people get dragged along tying to respond to the needs of the stupid people. Unlike the first two scenes, the third is no joke. That is something that WILL happen if smart people don’t keep stupid people in check and that WILL lead to the decay of society.

In conclusion: Idiocracy has tones of eugenics as a joke. Not to be taken seriously. If you take it seriously seek help. It does warn of a present where most people are stupid, dressed up as the future. It does warn of smart people responding to the needs of stupid people, while important things are left unattained for.

the layers to this

Alright so first of all let’s get this out of the way parody ≠ documentary.

Second of all it doesn’t parody how stupid people will have more sex and stupid genetics will spread too much, that’s just a throwaway joke at the begining of the movie. What really leads there is smart people working on stupid things to please the masses of stupid people and not doing anything to stop stupid people from, well acting stupid. Which is what causes societies to delcine in general. Stupid people don’t produce stupid offspring in general, but a society where smart people are too short-sighted to care about the decline of their society will inevitably lead to stupid people taking over for good.

People are right to be concerned about that joke, but only because stupid people, not realizing it’s about them will take it as an arguement for eugenics. But that shouldn’t be a problem as long as smart people keep them in check.

Look up Carlo M. Cipolla and the The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity for some amazing insight.

We should pass a law that mandates all billboards have to be some joke submitted by average people and selected by random chance and/or whoever gets to be on the funny committee. We should do this for a year or at least a month, making sure a lot of billboards get memes about ads sucking ass. Then we give the billboards back to the advertisers and watch as chaos unfold.

Curt’s new what now?

Yeah that probably has something to it

That must have took some balls. One of the celebs in my country got into the news by brake-checking in front of a bus with a Bentley. The footage from the inside of the bus is savage. Sure he probably wouldn’t have died from that crash but that car sure looked expensive. Anyway he died a year later, urban legend has it from a cocaine OD. Karma is real kids.

Wait is that supposed to be me? I’m really just asking what do you think makes him bad.

What’s the problem with Kubrick?

I was like this with 2001: A Space Odessy. I love Kubrick, I love sci-fi, I even like art that may require a change in perspective/that is more abstract and I’m an old movie buff. Yet Space Odessy wasn’t for me for some reason. It’s long, streched-out and has some scenes you wish would already end by the second minute, yet they last for 20. I liked the surreal bits a lot but for the almost 3 hours it took to watch it I really can’t say I was entertained.

I ended up watching Interstellar later and while it’s far from Space Odessy in artistic value I ended up feeling that was more like the movie I wanted Space Odessy to be. Obviously they are not very similar but it had some concepts that without watching I hoped Kubrick already figured out for some reason.

but

if dr disrespect was on the island

and now trump has captured him

could he be trying to silence witnesses?

wait why did the dude become black

yeah sure then also this

Wait but this map includes New Zealand, doesn’t it?

EDIT: After leaving my comment I looked at the meme exctly one more time and got it

This is one of those memes where I can believe that those now crossed out years were really added over all the years