Devolution

Prompted by science fiction and Disney Land's World of Tomorrow, we've all come to believe that what lies in store for us is a more refined society with less war, more technology and, of course, bubble gum that tastes like anything you want.

Idiocracy offers an alternative view... Rob swears this was in the theaters briefly and he's probably right - he usually is about this kind of stuff - but I certainly don't remember it. While we tend to think of natural selection favoring the strongest, most able elements of a species, it truly is only guided by the species members who are most able to procreate... which once were the most fit and able...

Mike Judge, of Office Space (and, yes, Beavis and Butt-head) fame directed Idiocracy, and imagines an unfortunately possible future scenario where natural selection bites us in the ass; where smart people have been so cautious in reproducing and thoughtless people have reproduced so... ah... promiscuously, that in 500 years there is actually a dramatic devolution - the median IQ has sunk so low that people don't know how to get rid of the mounds of waste they create; they kill crops by watering them with a sports drink because the manufacturer bought the regulatory agencies. It's one of those hilarious movies that made me a little sick to my stomach even as I was laughing.

The ACLU imagines an even more immediate slide down the slipper slope this administration has created. This video shows a pizza delivery order taking place only a few years down the road, where data integration has gone from being useful to being terrifying.

All I'm saying is that it'll be a lot easier to protect our country and our civil liberties if we take up the fight before they're gone.