"Idiocracy" is totally coming true!

This sounds like the type of film that I would enjoy, so I must make the effort to get hold of a copy. I still love the word, it is so descriptive.

Oh...so this is a film and not a tv show? I wonder, could I rent it at the DVD rental place? It does sound interesting. I will say that I saw creativity going downhill long before reality shows became popular. My kids never got much tv time and it was rare that video games were in our home. I broke down and got a computer when the teachers pretty much told me that one was a necessity for them in middle school. They are all grown now and very creative, intelligent girls and none of them spend a lot of time playing mindless games or watching tv. We get movies sometimes and I keep my cable going for company if they want to watch it and for my grandkids who sometimes will want to watch it when here. Even they will mostly choose to watch a movie over tv.

"Idiocracy" is a film done in the early 2000's by Mike Judge that depicts a world that has gone, for lack of better words, ( wal-mart parking lot ) The film is set several hundred years in the future and stars Luke Wilson as the subject of an army experiment gone wrong, in the field of cryogenics. It is both disturbing and hilarious. I would recommend watching it ASAP. Ha!

I would agree to the extent that the ease of being lazy has certainly been influenced heavily technology. However, the calculator, which is a computer, the PC, automotive computing, computer controlled digital cameras extra... have enriched our lives the their use in scientific research, safety both public and private, and the ability to expand intellect faster. Though the web also brings us the ability to dumb ourselves down with media and entertainment garbage for free. We have the ability to use our intelligence to make the right choice with how we use these things. Much of the problem I am observing seems to be poor cultural integrity and awful breeding habits, as simply was put in the opening of Idiocracy itself.

Ok, I see where I messed up with this discussion. Please understand that I do not as a rule watch tv. I probably watch about a half hour of tv a month ...if that and then it is usually news or something. I did not realize that you were referring to a tv show. In general, while technology has helped in many ways, it has also dumbed down people. Kids rely on calculators in school to do their math and are allowed to . Back when I was in school, that would have been considered cheating. We had to know how to find an answer on our own and using our brain only. I was great in math. Since leaving school, I've used the calculator at work and I currently work a cash register that tells you the change to give back (old ones did not) and I have seen a real decline in my math skills. Sometimes I do math just to do it because it bothers me. If computers all crashed tomorrow...lots of people and mostly younger ones would really be hurting. They do not know how to do things without, calculators, computers, cellphones etc. I have seen kids that do not exchange phone #'s if one doesn't have his cell phone on him to add the number into it!! I tossed one kid a pad of paper and pen after witnessing such an exchange one day and he looked at me like I had 1000 heads! I said "write your friend's number down and enter it later!" You tell some of these people to keep a paper trail of all their information and they don't even know what that is. And many have lost all sense of creativity which helps in problem solving and why is that? Computer, tv, cellphones , video games...that is how they entertain themselves.