In a recent effortpost, I investigated a mistake in that movie. Mike judge focuses on the anti-intellectual and auntie elitist form of idiocracy, but I ended up making the argument that there is a second form of Idiocracy that is pseudo intellectual and elitist in nature. As an example, in the movie the famous TV show "ow my balls" is often mentioned, but The true idiocracy universe would have a second show, just as vacuous, of watching people watch "ow my balls" to laugh at how unrefined and uncultured they are.
At the end of the movie, the anti-intellectual anti-elitist idiocracy is convinced that watering plants with water instead of brawndo works because the plants start growing again. The elitist anti-intellectual idiocracy may not be convinced by that, and instead we'll start parroting the line "correlation is not causation" and start demanding to see the peer reviewed study, in spite of nobody actually understanding what correlation does not imply causation actually means, nor would a peer-reviewed study actually is, nor what peer review actually entails.
At the end of the movie, the anti-intellectual anti-elitist idiocracy is convinced that watering plants with water instead of brawndo works because the plants start growing again. The elitist anti-intellectual idiocracy may not be convinced by that, and instead we'll start parroting the line "correlation is not causation" and start demanding to see the peer reviewed study, in spite of nobody actually understanding what correlation does not imply causation actually means, nor would a peer-reviewed study actually is, nor what peer review actually entails.
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Yeah, actually...
People don't always agree with me when I post thoughtful arguments here, and sometimes I'm wrong and they're right, but I never get the impression that I'm getting a preprogrammed response back. People engage with the argument I made for the most part. Every time I try the same around redditors (even redditors on places like lemmy) I get back something a youtuber said or something written in an article, presented as if it's their own original thoughts, but those thoughts rarely fit in with what I had to say because I'm not usually regurgitating someone else's points.
People don't always agree with me when I post thoughtful arguments here, and sometimes I'm wrong and they're right, but I never get the impression that I'm getting a preprogrammed response back. People engage with the argument I made for the most part. Every time I try the same around redditors (even redditors on places like lemmy) I get back something a youtuber said or something written in an article, presented as if it's their own original thoughts, but those thoughts rarely fit in with what I had to say because I'm not usually regurgitating someone else's points.