It’s been like 15 years of me saying at first, parallels with Idiocracy, but the last 10 or so: “you know how the beginning of every dystopian end times film begins with the news montage about natural disasters, rising populism, income inequality, and whatnot? Have you read any headlines?”
parallels with Idiocracy
Bro, life’s been like that for some people, for forever.
A 145 IQ isn’t that crazy, like 1 in 1200 people. About the same frequency as someone transitioning.
But an intellectual deficiency is defined as 30 points lower than frame of reference, which is normally 100.
For someone at 145, about 84% of humanity is at least 30 points lower. And in your day to day life, you’re not gonna run into that other 16% often
So if one of them was the reference point, like Not Sure in Idiocracy, then this is already idiocracy.
“Ignorance is bliss” isn’t just a saying, being intelligent fucking sucks.
Title of first album recorded with high school band was about the suffering of not being ignorant (astronomical low odds but don’t want to name it and dox myself)
I’m already explaining it to my neurodivergent kid that the world isnt made for your brain AND the intelligence gap will alienate you
My first sales manager, when I left (which he sensed was) for a competitor told me not to go down the rabbit hole with weirdness in the open, only so as not to alienate myself. Nothing wrong with me, but people suck.
Idiocracy is a better timeline, the president tried to put the smartest person in charge. Good luck getting that in our reality.
When you think it can’t get worse lol