Idiocracy. So what do we do to prevent it?

[BreweryYardRat]

Didn't see it. Don't need to. Plenty of summaries out there.

So how do we work today to prevent that nightmarish future from becoming a reality? Suggestions?

And don't just say "more education!" Education's been slashed so badly over the years that it may be going into an unstoppable downward spiral. As the vast masses of people become less educated, they see less need for education, so on and so forth. The smart people (including the folks smart enough to see the need for their kids to get a good education) don't make up enough of a percentage of voters to necessarily save education in this country. If we can get liberal Congressional majorities and presidents for the next 30 years, then maybe we can break the cycle. Odds are, though, that's not going to happen.

Genocide of the stupid is obviously out of the question.

There's no way we'd be able to make good nutrition (which helps stimulate intelligence in growing children) mandatory in this country.

What do we do?!

[htuttle]

1. We could...trick them?

PURPLE HATS AND RAINBOWS FOR EVERYBODY!!! YEAAAAAY!

...after all, if we're the smart ones, it shouldn't be that hard. :shrug:

[htuttle]

2. But seriously...

This is a very long term struggle. Dates back to the dawn of mankind if you ask me. If it weren't for the impending ecological disasters we're looking at, it wouldn't be so much of a problem.

So I think the real question is: How do we keep the idiots from killing the biosphere? If we can take care of that, everything else will work itself out...eventually.

[kenny blankenship]

5. I don't think we're in much danger of, for example, a food supply collapse or anything dire

after all Brawndo has what plants crave.

[PATRICK]

3. There is a contradiction,

fortunately. look at the world and the knowledge required by schooling, jobs and simple living today. The world has become too hard for the common intelligence much less the idiots. The concurrent shove back by people represented by moronic elites trying to harness the world created by and for a far more intelligent human species can only fail.

The crisis is that the world is changing beyond the capacities of homo sapiens IN GENERAL. The smart and the dumb can wrangle about this until they make some solution to survive. Then the final solution is in engineering DNA improved race with better moral and cognitive intelligence. the alternative is Road Warrior, castle pyramid world in climate and social chaos until the same point is arrived at after much longer periods of drama and pain. Or extinction. There is no indefinite future for homo sapiens and it isn't the handwriting on the wall one cannot read, it is the wall itself bodyslamming us. Idiocracy means the fast path to extinction. When dealing with idiots in a lifeboat, you do or die.

Education alone is not a guarantee of progress, but progress without education is almost impossible. There is no ideal solution yet, just a moving toward or away from one.

[BlooInBloo]

4. ROFLMAO!! The idiocracy is already here - to suggest curing it w/o "more education" - LOLOLOL!

[Initech]

6. I think we all know the solution: Get rid of Fox.

Of course, eliminating Rupert Murdoch's empire of stupidity will be no easy task!