I've written before about how I realized that the idiocracy in the movie is just one form of idiocracy, and not the most dangerous one.
You can have the populist anti-intellectual idiocracy, but typically that's not that clever and knows it isn't and doesn't want to do much more than live life.
The pseudo-intellectual elitist idiocracy, that's the dangerous one. In such a case, they take on the trappings of intelligence, but without actually being intelligent. And the thing is, such idiocracy does think it deserves to rule the world.
In the end of the movie, they use water instead of energy drink to fix the crops, but can you imagine a parallel universe sequel where they refuse to allow them to water the plants with water instead of energy drink because there's no peer reviewed study saying plants don't crave electrolytes?
In a postmodern sense, the pseudo-intellectual elitist idiocracy becomes a simulacrum of the simulation of what intelligent people once did, but without any of the things that made those actions intelligent. It becomes an epistemic cage from which they cannot escape.
Ironically, the many people lamenting how many stupid people are out there hide these pseudo-intellectual elitists who aren't necessarily any smarter than the people they're attacking, but they wear the clothes of the intelligent so they can pretend they're not "one of those people".
This relates to a post I wrote but didn't send earlier today, about the easiest way to destroy science: Don't paint scientists as the bad guy, just hop in and stop using science to seek truth you don't like and start using it to prove you're right. Once you start using things like p-hacking to get the results you want rather than chasing the results that are true, science isn't meaningful anymore.
Science proved a bunch of stuff the establishment didn't want to prove, such as heliocentrism and evolution, but it even proved a bunch of stuff the scientists themselves didn't want to prove -- Quantum Physics and relativity proving that Newtonian physics are not correct essentially destroyed the image of a clockwork universe the modernist epistemology relied upon, and some very high level scientists left the field shortly after.
You can have the populist anti-intellectual idiocracy, but typically that's not that clever and knows it isn't and doesn't want to do much more than live life.
The pseudo-intellectual elitist idiocracy, that's the dangerous one. In such a case, they take on the trappings of intelligence, but without actually being intelligent. And the thing is, such idiocracy does think it deserves to rule the world.
In the end of the movie, they use water instead of energy drink to fix the crops, but can you imagine a parallel universe sequel where they refuse to allow them to water the plants with water instead of energy drink because there's no peer reviewed study saying plants don't crave electrolytes?
In a postmodern sense, the pseudo-intellectual elitist idiocracy becomes a simulacrum of the simulation of what intelligent people once did, but without any of the things that made those actions intelligent. It becomes an epistemic cage from which they cannot escape.
Ironically, the many people lamenting how many stupid people are out there hide these pseudo-intellectual elitists who aren't necessarily any smarter than the people they're attacking, but they wear the clothes of the intelligent so they can pretend they're not "one of those people".
This relates to a post I wrote but didn't send earlier today, about the easiest way to destroy science: Don't paint scientists as the bad guy, just hop in and stop using science to seek truth you don't like and start using it to prove you're right. Once you start using things like p-hacking to get the results you want rather than chasing the results that are true, science isn't meaningful anymore.
Science proved a bunch of stuff the establishment didn't want to prove, such as heliocentrism and evolution, but it even proved a bunch of stuff the scientists themselves didn't want to prove -- Quantum Physics and relativity proving that Newtonian physics are not correct essentially destroyed the image of a clockwork universe the modernist epistemology relied upon, and some very high level scientists left the field shortly after.
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