Guess because of hope

Newell 2022-03-20 09:01:38

What is the future like? Guessing, it's probably good. Beautiful skyscrapers, flying cars, and understanding robot waiters. Occasionally encounter some natural and man-made disasters, but human beings will always rely on their own bravery and kindness to solve them. However, Mike Judge's thoughts may be a little different. In his "Stupid Evolution" directed by him, the future looks like this:

people with high IQs (white-collar workers, elites) are busy with their careers because of the fast pace of life. As a result, DINK families appear. Incense does not last. However, people with low IQs are frantically carrying out the movement to create human beings. As a result, the IQ of human beings is getting lower and lower. After 500 years, the IQ of people has been so low that they can only be called fools. Fortunately, our hero and heroine are normal people who were frozen in 2005. After 500 years, they woke up due to the "garbage avalanche" and found themselves the smartest people in the world. After a series of funny stories, the male protagonist became the president and gave birth to the three smartest children in the world with the female protagonist.

When dinosaurs became the masters of the earth, they could not adapt to the new environment due to environmental changes, which led to the extinction of species. In fact, the argument of natural selection does not mean that the future will be higher, farther, and stronger. The idea of ​​idiot evolution seems to be giving us a new idea. In the future, can we change to another way of thinking?

We have heard about the so-called energy crisis a long time ago. If we say that we have less and less oil now, simple supply and demand will tell us that oil is getting more and more expensive until it becomes a luxury. However, what we are seeing now is that we are still driving cars (with petroleum) and wearing synthetic clothing (with petroleum), why? Because our oil-exporting countries are suppressing the surge in oil - too expensive costs will only focus attention on developing new energy sources. And as long as the price of oil is kept within the acceptable range, we will become more and more dependent on oil like a chronic poison.

At the same time, when we look back at people's vision for robots in the early 20th century, we find that the future has not developed as they envisioned. China has become the world's factory, and Filipino maids are the export of labor from the Philippines to the world. The world is becoming more and more flat, and developed countries are enjoying the cheap labor provided by developing countries. Where else do we need to develop robots, aren't these people cheaper?

The economy, more and more affects the future of our humanity. When we define "The Evolution of Stupid" as American black humor, it's worth paying attention to the purpose behind it. There are always twists and turns in the development of the story to push the plot to a climax. Our hero encounters such a problem: the crops are not growing. Only after a field trip did the protagonist discover that these idiots were actually irrigating with sports drinks. When asked why, the idiots said, because it contains electrolytes.

Yes, with electrolytes. So we started not only drinking it on a daily basis, but also using it for feeding babies, and for irrigating crops naturally. In the 1980s, Gatorade, which produces sports drinks, bribed officials from the Department of Agriculture to modify The Food Guide Pyramid to make people feel that drinking sports drinks with electrolytes is a beneficial choice for the human body. It was not until decades later, when more and more obese patients appeared, that related scientists pointed out the mistakes of the original nutrition pyramid.

But are we really going to develop according to the so-called stupid theory of evolution? Guessing, I guess, is probably out of hope. This kind of hope can be a beautiful expectation of higher, faster and stronger, or it can be an exhortation to the people in this world, hoping that people will re-look and solve the problem.

What will the future be like? I hope……

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Idiocracy quotes

  • Prison Guard #3: [looks at computer after Not Sure tells him he's not supposed to be there] uh, well... I don't see you in here... so, you're, uh, gonna have to stay in prison.

  • Officer Collins: [addressing military brass about Rita's background] We did, however have to come to an arrangement with her pimp. A gentleman who goes by the name Upgrayedd. Which he spells thusly, with two D's, as he says, "for a double dose of this pimping".