good one from Adam Kinzinger re Idiocracy

[RussBLib]

Adam helped me remember some of the details of Idiocracy.

I look around at the corruption, the bluster, the nonsense and I can't help but feel that we are living in the movie "Idiocracy." And the credits are rolling.

In 2006, Mike Judge released Idiocracy, a satirical comedy so niche that Fox buried it with almost no marketing or wide release. The studio apparently didn't know what to do with it, but we became it.

The premise is deceptively simple: Joe Bauers, the most average man in America, gets frozen in a military experiment and wakes up 500 years in the future. Humanity, having out-bred intelligence for generations, has devolved into a civilization of breathtaking stupidity. Crops are dying because agribusiness replaced irrigation water with a sports drink called Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator — because “it’s got electrolytes.” No one can explain what electrolytes are, only that Brawndo has them, and Brawndo is good, so shut up.

the rest of the column is here.