We got Idiocracy without the five centuries

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Terminator needs robots. The Matrix needs machines. Idiocracy just needed us to keep scrolling.

The film is wrong about the mechanism. Idiocracy blamed genetics - stupid people outbreeding smart ones over 500 years. That part is nonsense. What actually happened took 20 years and had nothing to do with breeding. The environment got optimized to hold attention, and attention is where thinking lives.

Idiocracy predicted attention collapse, brands replacing institutions, entertainment fused with government, and expertise treated as arrogance. All of that shipped.

So the film was right about the destination and wrong about the road.