Idiocracy-seems possible!

I recently saw a very low budget movie with a mediocre starcast- Idiocracy. I only knew Luke wilson and had a feeling that I have seen couple of other guys. But all that was immaterial in comparison with its amazing story. The theme itself is a very common Sci-Fi concept…Human Hibernation. Only here, it goes terribly wrong and the guy, Joe Bauer wakes up in the yr 2506 (Just like Eric Cartman in South Park, or is it the other way round?).

What the movie suggests is that instead of becoming wiser, the world starts dummying down exponentially. The process of natural selection only favors the ones with high reproductive power irrespective of IQ. In fact, it favors the dumb ones. So our hero wakes up in a world where he is the smartest guy in the world. People have become unbelievably lazy and stupid. Their philosophies are completely changed. They consider water to be only a toilet utility! Everybody drinks Brawndo-the thirst mutilator only. Their president is 5 times Ultimate Smack-Down champion. The movie goes on about Joe’s struggle to survive there initially and how he helps them later.

The reason for writing this post is because certain incidents in the recent past have started to exhibit this much feared trend of increased stupidity. With the announcement of initialization of Hadron Collider Big Bang experiment, the reactions of people were as stupid as of the future people in Idiocracy. Some theories are listed by Avnish here

Indian News channels have almost reached that level now. Its evident from the topics they handle and the way they handle them. We may also be on a downward slope. So watch out! Time may come when your grandsons will be voting for ‘The Great Khali‘ to become PM of India!