This was wayyyyy better than the “Deep or Dumb” on the same movie. By more precisely identifying the critiques of southern ignorance, this video felt more honest.
That is if you ignore the "poor people are result of their own issues rather than society" unintentionally (Judge using Bush-era assumptions about intellect) or intentionally (Judge being a Libertarian).
Based on today's culture, I don't think it's likely that'd happen honestly. People nowadays want to be the smart ones, more than the smart ones getting bullied.
@@caradetu I don`t know... people are using GTFO, LOL, SMH, BFF, BRB, CYA etc. acronyms instead of actually writing those words out. That`s a choice of stupidity, right? - Just as Mike Judge said our English language would amount to... I know that sounds like a very simple example of stupidity, but still an example...
Quite an interesting review of such a quaint documentary of 21st century Earth. Those were zainy times, before Nestle claimed their ownership of the atmosphere-born water vapour.
@@itsboyaknow I know and I watched it, but it is so full of half assed takes that I don't give a damn. Wisecrack used to be quite good, but recently all the content feels lazy and underdeveloped.
@@itsboyaknow This is a comedy channel. It used to be a section of wisecrack. Maybe not your cup of tea, but I sonehow feel like you miss the point of these videos. They are not reviews, also...
jotabeas22 You called it a review in your first comment.. I’ve watched so many of these videos. SO many and every single one of them used to make me laugh my ass off. Not anymore
For the sake of discussion: The movie may be more salient today, but not necessarily more “real” - because we still see the absurdity of it. And some of us are now more aware of/involved in/affected by political currents than we were in that time. To say it is more “real” would be to admit that we are collectively more stupid- which isn’t true. People are just as susceptible to manipulation today as they have always been, but the manipulation is more visible now (and therefore more nefarious when it succeeds). Point being: please chill with the nihilism. Children won’t have a future if we convince them there isn’t one.
Nihilism is the key to inner peace. If we're dust in the wind and nothing we do matters, it takes all the pressure off. I'm routinely told at age 42 that I look the same as 20 years ago. People who overestimate their cosmic significance don't fare nearly as well.
@@palaceofwisdom9448 It takes off too much pressure. I've never met a single person who sits around and does absolutely nothing with their lives who wasn't a nihilist.
@@DarthObscurity That's like saying "All tigers have stripes, so anything with stripes is a tiger." The fact that there are nihilists who paint their nails black and sit around brooding doesn't mean it's mandatory. Life isn't any less enjoyable just because I accept that it ends and isn't something more grandiose.
Palace Of Wisdom I just had a great conversation with a good friend who also calls himself nihilist, and have a deeper understanding. First I will admit to conflating nihilism with pessimism, in a colloquial slip. The two are not the same. With that said, perhaps i can elaborate on a point I’m sure you will agree with. As I phrased it to my friend: your ability to deal with this view constructively is not inherent in the viewpoint itself. So you may be okay, but “meaningless” is all the justification that an extreme viewpoint needs to commit (insert atrocity) Of course this is not to deliberately link nihilism to atrocities: humans acting blindly on ideals are always responsible for those. Deeper point though is: for you (and my friend) the view labeled “nihilism” is clearly a bridge away from the inherited restrictive mores of an old society, and into the necessarily broad, excited childlike curiosity that ultimately powers our human experience. Yet for some-especially children who will lack the cultural and social perspectives of your upbringing-the view can offer little incentive to explore. Thanks very much for sharing your perspective!
Darth Obscurity There’s a chance you (like I, and maybe these people you met) fell into the same trap of mixing nihilism with pessimism. They are not the same, but - since many are learning it from pop culture - mistakes are ...bound to happen.
I hadn't realized the whole cabinet as nascar drivers thing, i can recall that being a Robin Williams bit from one of his specials "politicians should be like nascar drivers, they should wear jackets with the brands and logos of the companies that own them that way it would be easier for us to understand why they vote the way they do in the Senate, oh that guy voted against universal health care? Let me look at his jacket, oh big pharma sponsored huh? Got it!"
VPN's don't really add a whole lot of extra security when shopping online... actually by connecting to a VPN server in another country can increase risk of being hacked since they then have to travel BACK from the country you bounced off of. See a VPN encrypts your data traveling from your computer to the VPN server. So if you're in say Florida and you are shopping on a website whose server is US located, but you tunnel to the UK when shopping. Your data will be encrypted on its way out your computer, get to the UK and be decrypted (it has to decrypt once exiting the VPN server otherwise it's not intelligible by the endpoint, in this case the store you're shopping at). Now it has to travel from the UK back to the US based server where the store's website is located bouncing around whatever nodes it must to, to make that trip back. It's no different than if you had just connected to that store website in the first place. Sending your data from your machine to the store in question staying within the confines of the US (and potentially a short distance since if it's a big store they generally have multiple servers across the country... unlike if you shopped on a US store from a UK based VPN node because why have a US store on a UK server... likely that'll be the co.uk version of their store where you wouldn't be shopping). All the VPN does in regards to shopping is make the store think you're in a different country. There is already encryption in a credit card transaction afterall. It's why the store shop cart is in https, the 's' being for secure. Your messages over https are encrypted between you and the store using https. Now of course, this https security can be broken with effort, but the vpn doesn't stop this, since all the VPN is doing is making your device appear elsewhere in the world... the data STILL needs to be sent across the internet openly at some point. Unless you somehow had a VPN tunnel directly to the store's website itself. Which none of these vpn tools actually offer (that I know of) since it'd require setting up a tunnel at each store's website's servers. And I doubt NordVPN, ExpressVPN, PIA, or any of them have the clout to negotiate such a thing with the likes of say Amazon or Wal-Mart. ... There is one place where a VPN may give a little oomph when doing online shopping/banking. And that's if you're on public wifi somewhere (like starbucks for instance). Since the LAN you're on is public, any of your unencrypted messaging that goes on can easily be sniffed on that LAN. And usually such networks are very loosy goosey when it comes to security and can easily be hijacked by anyone connecting to it with the know-how. There a VPN can be useful. But I mean... do you really need to shop that bad while sitting at starbucks? If so... say you do a lot of freelancing out of a starbucks or something and spend a lot of your day in one, yeah, then it's useful for that instance. ... In the end though... I just find it humorous the various things these VPN companies say their service can do as a disguise to their real purpose. I mean we all know it... they exist so you can torrent freely without your ISP hitting you with warnings, and circumvent country lockouts for streaming services (like netflix/spotify/etc), and even more illegal stuff that I won't even dare mention because those people make me sick.
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Part of me feel that there should be a sequel. Egocracy. The idea being that Idiocracy's "Documentary" meme seems...to have alot of hole (if ignoring the movie's blaming poor people for their problems rather than society), but rather ego and unwilling to explore own's bias. I mean 4chan used to be anti-Bush and anti-establishment yet supported Trump, the amounts of outspoken Atheists--Sam Harris being Hitchenson--becoming somewhat misogynistic despite their criticism on religion as such, or "why does Rich, old, and educated people believe in anti-Vaccination, anti-GMO even if many of them did have concern about positive beliefs like Climate Change". Maybe Joe finding an enclave of smart people....only to find their abode to be disappointing when it was just as crappy due to inhabitants being intelligent yet lack commonsense, too egoistic to listen to concerns, and such. Then again, it started to sound like Bioshock, which itself is a jab at Atlas Shrugged where people are smart yet their negligence of poor people and uncontrolled magic-drugs caused their downfall.
Idiocracy is the same as that Simpson joke about the Russia pressing a button and bringing the Soviet Union coming back, it used to be funny, now it's just freakishly, depressingly accurate.
To be fair when those "idiots" realized that the strange guy from the past makes things right they made him a leader. They didn't choose a candidate who promised them miracles but the person who proved to be able and willing to push the country in better future
Actually they tried to “rehabilitate” him when his policies didn’t work immediately, prompting him to ask, “Do you really want to destroy the only guy in the world that’s actually trying to help you?” They eventually realized his policies DO work and restored him to the whitehouse.
How does the sponsorship work? Like, is garyx traveling back to the past to take the money from the sponsors, or expressvpn just lived longer than humanity?
It tend to believe that Idiocracy for as good as it is, misses the mark. Wisecrack actually did a deep or dumb on this movie, and I find that we're not so much anti-intellectual these days for as much as the minority of a few people with a platform want to malign the majority of people they think their intellectual inferiors. We're moving more toward dangerous pseudo-intellectualism.
This show's lore tells that earth was destroyed many years ago. No big deal, could happen. But it also mentions about something called "The Logan Paul decades"... This is horrifying.
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