Bell Riots coming up this September! Keep an eye out for a guy who looks suspiciously like Captain Sisko.
This is a terrible way of visualizing data. Who uses a bar chart for years‽ It should just be a timeline.
Because it’s demonstrating the difference in time between the year the movie was created and the year the movie depicts.
The bar is from actual release year to setting year, that’s why the left edges aren’t aligned
The annoying thing is the vertical line (when this infographic came out) wasn’t updated so it just looks like a random line.
I was thinking it was meant to line up with the year 2000 (as shown on the axis at the bottom), but then I saw that somehow 2001 was behind the vertical axis which makes it not make sense at all
Timeline would suck. The right side would be so far it would compress all the data.
Clearly this should be a pie chart.
Hmm idk I feel like we’re way closer to idiocracy than ~400 years
Naw. We’ll never get there. The idiots in Idiocracy were aware of their own stupidity, and the second they find someone smarter than everyone else, the people in power immediately step down to let him tackle their most pressing issues.
The idiots IRL think they’re geniuses, and when the ones in power run into someone smarter than themselves, they run a smear campaign and/or incite violence against that person.
The future we’re falling into is much darker than the one depicted in Idiocracy.
President Camacho legitimately being a better leader than most IRL heads of state rn. It wasn’t really the guys fault he was an idiot being born at the point of degredation he was and the guy still institutes a state wide intelligence testing program to find the smartest person he can and put that guy in charge.
Nah, we’re never gonna get to idiocracy. The movie’s premise rides on the idea that intelligence is a heritable trait, or a measurable quantity. It is more the case, I have observed, that people are idiots by necessity. You know, it’s uhh, difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. It’s pretty easy to just call everyone stupid, and then move on, but it’s much harder to understand specifically why they’re stupid.
I’m not sure what being almost 10yrs post robocop makes me feel, but I don’t like it. This future isn’t what I was promised in the 80s, and while no killer robots is nice, I still feel a bit cheated
I’m still waiting for that TV show where the guy says"I’d buy that for a dollar"
