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Date Posted: 00:29:00 01/11/13 Fri
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Post 317 A: Idiocracy, part 1
Truthfully and apparently I must be some kind of threat? Fox News, if you can call it that with a straight face, used their resident weasel, Dennis Miller, to bash the comment I made in "Post 315 A: Teltalheart's Christmas Message" that we, those that make less than $250,000 a year, are viewed by the politicians, Congress and the Billionaires as "cockroaches, a.k.a. vermin." I hope you know by now that Dennis Miller is a Weasel far and away above the rest. He has stolen jokes from Bill Hicks, who by the way died in 1994 from cancer. Everyone, you've got to wonder what kind of person steals material from a dead man who, just happened to be a complete polar opposite politically from Miller. A Weasel, that's who! But then again Republicans are prone to lying and stealing. However, it's what they do best.
Idiocracy was a movie that came out in 2006. It stared Luke Wilson who plays the character Joe Bowers, a U.S. Army Librarian who is tapped for a secret mission as a test subject for a government hibernation experiment. The test goes awry and Joe and a female test subject, Rita, are forgotten about until the great garbage land slide of the year 2505.
Long after they have been put to sleep they awake to a world that has not gotten smarter. Indeed, it's gotten dumber, much, much dumber. The Movie begins with these words:
"As Twenty First Century began human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest reproduced in greater numbers than the rest. A process which once favored the noblest traits of man now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction, a dumbing-down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the heard. It began to simply reward those that reproduced the most. And left the intelligent to become an endangered species."
It begins with an intelligent couple. Trevor, I.Q. 138, and Carol, I.Q. 141. They're having trouble getting pregnant because of Trevor's sperm count. Trevor later dies of a heart attack while masturbating to produce sperm for invitro-fertilization.
Reasoning has it that in Joe's world of 2005 he was chosen for the experiment because he was so average. In the world of 2505 Joe is a super genius! Tastefully he shows up at just the right time in history, and it's dammed luck he does. People are beginning to starve. The crops aren't growing. He finds the crops are being watered by Brawndo, a sports drink. It seems "in the budget crisis of 2330 Brawndo simply bought the F.D.A. and the F.T.C. allowing them to say or do anything they wanted." Brawndo had deemed water to be a threat to their profit margin. Sounds like a Republicans dream come true, doesn't it!
This wouldn't concern me so much if I hadn't heard that Big Banks are going to be allowed to use mortgages as "liquid assets." It seems bank regulators were requiring banks to have more liquid assets on had to prevent runs on banks. The industry complained, and then came up with their own idea. The same idea that got us in trouble the last time.
Oh yes, also, I can't recall if it was UBS Bank? But one very large bank was caught laundering drug money. Which apparently it had done for years. 20,5,12,20,1,12,8,5,1,18,20. Nobody, but nobody went to jail. They simply were allowed to pay a fine. If it had been you or your kid that had been caught selling drugs on the street or laundering drug money in a small business do you think all you would have to do is pay a fine? Hell no! Your ass would be on your way to jail!
Doesn't Brawndo kind of sound like the Chinese?
You have got to hand it to the fear-mongering Republican Politicians. They've done a wonderful job at fooling their common Republican base. They have their own network, Fox News, with which they use to spew out any manner of inflammatory garbage to take their common bases eye off the ball. Just like a magician uses slight of hand to fool the public. They can get people to vote against their own best interest. They can even get people to vote themselves out of a job.
In the 1850s Kansas was a hotbed of anti-slavery left-wing peoples (Populist) movement who had moved there from eastern states for no other reason than to oppose the slave state of Missouri. This was where the civil war started before it ever became national. In the twentieth century the Republican Party was able to turn this state into a hotbed of anti-elitist Conservatism. A wonderful book was produced in 2004 by Thomas Frank. The title is 'What's the Matter with Kansas?'
In the book it seem the political discussion in recent decades had been intentionally shifted from economic and social equality to those of "explosive" cultural issues. Issues such as flag burning, gay rights, religion and of course abortion. Frank claims there is a bitter divide between moderate a conservative Kansas Republicans which will typify the future of politics in America. Fiscal conservatism becomes to universal norm and a handful of hot-button issues is the subject of political war. The book states:
"Not long ago, Kansas would have responded to the current situation by making the bastards pay. This would have been a political certainty, as predictable as what happens when you touch a match to a puddle of gasoline. When business screwed the farmers and workers - when it implemented monopoly strategies invasive beyond the Populists' furthest imaginings - when it ripped off shareholders and casually tossed thousands out of work - you could be damned sure about what would follow.
Not these days. Out here the gravity of discontent pulls in only one direction: to the right, to the right, further to the right. Strip today's Kansans of their job security, and they head out to become registered Republicans. Push them off their land, and next thing you know they're protesting in front of an abortion clinic. Squander their life savings an manicures for the CEO and there's a good chance they'll join the John Birch Society. But ask them about the remedies their ancestors proposed (unions, antitrust, public ownership), and you might as well be referring to the days when knighthood was in flower." (Thomas Frank, 2004 "What's the Matter with Kansas?", pp. 67-68)
That is the Political aspect. Now for the natural.
Unlike the superman envisioned for the future by writers, poets and composers of the 19th century (Wagner), who would be physically, spiritually and morally greater than common man. The future has offered something quite different. As in the movie 'Idiocracy' the main problem of the human race is its animal nature. Because of genetic cues imbedded in the human brain; particularly that of the female, breeding mates are chosen for archaic reasons having little to do with modern technological society.
Most women will chose mates based on build: (1.) height, (2.) muscle mass; on physio-emotional features such as, (1.) attractiveness of face, (2.) voice, (3.) charm, (4.) power and influence .
It is a fact that almost anyone can learn to be charming for ten minutes. This is about the amount of time needed to spark some ones attention and interest. All these cues will be, for the most part, subconscious. A female may chose a mate for their wealth. But that will be a conscious decision. Never is a mate chosen for their intelligence.
All the lessons of the old world that is passing away has to be relearned anew by younger generations; despite repeated warnings from the older generations. Such things that should be common sense, such as: be wary of those who promote war and have a vested interest in it through themselves, their friends, their business partners, and or their financial backers.
As in the movie 'Idiocracy' the less intelligent will breed more often and with less use of contraception. The result being more pregnancies, both in and out of wedlock, of people having less intelligence. They will produce children that are genetically predisposed to being less intelligent.
And, unlike earlier predictions, the Republican Party and Fox News will continue. WAHOO!
Well, it's late now. I will do the intelligent thing and go to bed.
End Post 317 A: www.voy.com/40560/ teltalheart is Michael D. Barnes.
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