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Is America an Idiocracy?

aj59 Wrote: Jan 15, 2013 10:24 AM

What is even worse is when I hear of new moms who prop their babies up in front of a television so baby can watch. If flickering images can induce seizures in Epileptics, there's no telling what type of damage it's doing to baby brains. They don't call it an idiot box for nothing!

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Is America an Idiocracy?

In 1951, Ray Bradbury published Fahrenheit 451, a futuristic novel in which books are burned, and the citizenry occupies itself by watching hours of TV on wall-to-wall sets. Contrary to popular belief, Bradbury says Fahrenheit 451 wasn’t about censorship or McCarthyism. It was about how TV undermines interest in reading and learning.

In 2006, Mike Judge released the film Idiocracy, in which the main character, Joe Bauers, undergoes a suspended-animation experiment and wakes up in the year 2505. He’s unable to communicate, because “the English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valley girl, inner-city slang and various grunts.” The...

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