The world is getting dumber before your eyes. There??s a reason for this, and it has very little to do with our educational system: Simply put, the dumb ones have more babies. There are exceptions??you might be one of them, so don??t freak the fuck out on me??but that??s the general rule. As the world grows dumber, the smart and discerning will become even less willing to plop their frail offspring into this squalling, dysgenic soup bowl. And things will get worse.
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film??s opening sequence is a split-screen comparison of a high-IQ yuppie couple contrasted against a trailer-park ??tard named Clevon. The yuppies, sometimes with good reason, consistently hesitate to reproduce, while Clevon??s fertile scrotum effortlessly yields multiple progeny. As the male yuppie finally succumbs to a heart attack while masturbating to produce sperm for artificial insemination??effectively killing his bloodline??Clevon survives a jet-ski injury to his testicles and continues to impregnate multiple dimwitted females. The screen rapidly becomes overpopulated with a flow chart of Clevon??s descendants. As we watched this segment about the stupid??s birth rate running roughshod over that of the intelligent, my brother said, ??What??s scary about this is it??s so true.?
It??s true??inarguably??but nearly impossible to mention without facing the wrath of censorious egalitarian fascists everywhere. These days, it is nearly a crime??and it may be a literal criminal offense in the near future??to imply that intelligence is hereditary and that society??s interests might best be served if stupid people took a chill pill on the breedin??.
Liberals seem sensitive to everything except what??s truly important. Back in the early 1970s, population control used to be a solid plank in the liberal platform until it was deemed culturally insensitive to imply that many women should keep their frickin' legs shut. Now there are nearly TWICE as many people on Earth as there were then??and most of them seem highly stupid??but the ??sensitive? lefty cowards are too afraid to make a peep about it. Perhaps because of this, Idiocracy was released with almost zero publicity.
Things don??t magically become untrue simply because they hurt your feelings. The passage of time does not always bring progress. People ARE getting dumber. A middle finger and the word ??whatever? are the closest to articulation that most folks can muster. We??re already halfway to the world depicted in Idiocracy. Sterilization is probably too harsh and inhumane, but after all, the stupid are stupid. There has to be some way we can trick them into using birth control.
This is a fundamental, axiomatic belief held by a shockingly large portion of the population, I'm afraid. Such people will tell you-- in all seriousness-- that intelligence can't be hereditary, because that would be racist. The more consistent among their lot will deny all evidence they find intolerable (the late S. J. Gould) or will demonstrate incredible ingenuity in the fabrication of the most ponderous alternative hypotheses in order to evade the obvious conclusions (Jared Diamond)...
I know a couple of college-educated types who, when faced with facts they consider immoral, simply retreat into a sort of solipsism. That is the "New Age," feel-good approach to Transcendent Wisdom: if you don't like it, simply deny all of reality outright! "Everything is subjective" they'll tell you. They "construct" their own "realities," they'll tell you. "What's real to you isn't what's real to me," they'll tell you. And they've read a bunch of really stupid books which promote the really stupid notion that quantum physics somehow supports this head-up-your-ass worldview... I no longer argue with these people.
What all this goes to show is that the demonstrably intelligent (or, at least, the educated) can be amazingly stupid. The authors of The Bell Curve were at pains to sound the alarm: what's happening at the high end is just as dangerous as what's happening at the low end. The "cognitive elite" live their lives so protected from reality, their most dire concern is not unemployment or housing or foreign relations or the federal budget or even their beloved social inequities... it's Global Warming. They are (literally) living in Cloud-Cuckoo Land. These Leaders of Civilisation are isolated so incestuously in their ideologies and experience-- and so defensively narcissistic in their collective moral self-righteousness-- that any public mention of the word "eugenics" would cause them to fill auditoriums across the nation so they could line up to blubber and sob into microphones.
