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Jul. 26th, 2018
While we're about documentaries
Jul. 26th, 2018 06:51 pmAs one article says,
"Believe it or not, it’s been exactly 10 years since Mike Judge’s Idiocracy debuted here in the good ol’ US of A. The question, which we ask ourselves year after year, remains: Have we, as an American society in the year 2016, finally reached peak Idiocracy? Arguments have been made on both sides, though well-reasoned debates occur much less often than simple Tweets, movie quotes, or other protestations proclaiming the arrival of the Idiocracy and the downfall of utopian society after some flash-in-the-pan news headline. Then along came Donald Trump."
...This one may've turned true. I'm talking of Idiocracy. Now in hindsight, and with Trump's ascent to power, it seems almost prophetic...
"Believe it or not, it’s been exactly 10 years since Mike Judge’s Idiocracy debuted here in the good ol’ US of A. The question, which we ask ourselves year after year, remains: Have we, as an American society in the year 2016, finally reached peak Idiocracy? Arguments have been made on both sides, though well-reasoned debates occur much less often than simple Tweets, movie quotes, or other protestations proclaiming the arrival of the Idiocracy and the downfall of utopian society after some flash-in-the-pan news headline. Then along came Donald Trump."
...This one may've turned true. I'm talking of Idiocracy. Now in hindsight, and with Trump's ascent to power, it seems almost prophetic...
