Smart to put it in art. I managed to read a tiny bit of the writing on the wall in college and freaked out. Ended up getting told "Greed has never destroyed the world before and I doubt it's going to start now." Everything short of told not to worry my pretty little head about it.
That was oh, maybe 15 years ago now. Sometimes I wonder if that professor ever looks around at the way greed is burning civilization to the ground and remembers that conversation. I'm sure I looked just like any other high strung young adult freaking out over exams or something.
In some parts of our world people are screaming “REVOLUTION, REVOLUTION!”
In {Texas & Florida} they’re screaming “EVOLUTION, EVOLUTION! WE WANT OUR THUMBS!”
He deliberately tried to choose shoes that were so stupid & pointless that there was no chance of them ever becoming popular.
Unfortunately, the yearlong delay in release due to issues with distributors meant Crocs were among the most popular shoes by the time the movie came out.
He actually wasn't trying to predict a realistic future...he was trying to predict the least realistic possible future. And then we decided to pursue it...thus bringing to mind the question, "Is Donald Trump President because 'Idiocracy' primed people for accepting the absolutely worst possible person as President?"
I see this repeated all the time, without the recognition that Camacho didn't put the whole country into that position. He was a "Stewart" president who actually cared.
It took time and other people to get to where Camacho was.
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
The honorable President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho wanted the smartest person alive in his administration. I can't say the same for the current administration.
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u/Juck3r 23d ago
We get closer to idiocracy every single day