2 posts tagged “idiocracy”
I decided yesterday that there was a missing blog that I would write if I had time. Mostly because I'd like to read it. Let me know if you know any blog or blogs like this so I can pretend.
It would be called Best Endtimes Ever and contain news about several interrelated topics I'd like to follow:
- Space exploration. I don't know and haven't historically followed space, other than a boy's typical space shuttle paraphernalia and more recently agreeing that SpaceShipOne was hella cute. The video of Burt Rutan at TED made me more interested in the topic than anything before or since.
- New human computer interfaces. I'm not that hot on cyborgization and augmented reality, but epaper, multitouch interfaces, and ubiquitous mobile computing are the leading edge in user experience.
- Industrial food. I loved Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma, and know there are other books on the topic now, but more importantly there's actual news in the form of Whole Foods' business practices, Chinese product safety, and the disappearing bees. All of it is about our precarious, interdependent, global food system.
- Lastly, a topic I'll call epidemic neoteny. I find compelling the idea that media, public corporations, government, and the people are in a vicious downward spiral of devolutionary, idiocratic infantilism. I can't claim to know to what extent this actually happens (I should at least read Everything Bad Is Good For You), but it seems like plenty.
I said these topics are interrelated. I suppose they are somehow; I sure can't say. But I'd still read the blog.
Weird that I see this makes Buzzfeed only after I saw Mike Judge's Idiocracy this week, which predicts that amidst 2505's complete collapse of civilization due to evolved stupidity, Starbucks will provide the "full service" latte.
This week I also saw Children of Men and finished Half-Life 2: Episode One (finally), so if aliens/influenza end human procreation and destroy civilization tomorrow—sorry, my bad.
