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Is America an Idiocracy?

sjones84 Wrote: Jan 16, 2013 2:03 PM

You go girl! It's difficult to have hope for children when the 'adults' they follow aren't emotionally past their own toddlerhood. We need more young adults that have been taught to think for themselves and have learned to govern themselves leading the way. Keep speaking!

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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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