{"id":1314,"date":"2008-09-25T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2008-09-26T14:11:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T18:11:34","slug":"idiocracy-the-cycle-of-lifeartlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/25\/idiocracy-the-cycle-of-lifeartlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiocracy: Coming Soon to a Society Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try to keep my natural misanthropy in check, but it&#8217;s been a little harder to do in the past week.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve found myself invoking the term &#8220;idiocracy&#8221; more often.\u00c2\u00a0 It comes from a\u00c2\u00a0 2006 movie of the same name that was largely forgotten ( on balance, probably a fair fate).\u00c2\u00a0 The opening scene was brilliant, however, and something that I&#8217;ve recommended to people far and wide.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d never been able to find it online until now:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C1sE1E3z7jU[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus:<\/strong> When searching for the above clip, I found another one, in which President Camacho addresses the House of Representin&#8217; with a three-point plan to save us all by putting one man in charge of saving us all.\u00c2\u00a0 Nah, no parallels there:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cxJnf5tkfoo[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to keep my natural misanthropy in check, but it&#8217;s been a little harder to do in the past week.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve found myself invoking the term &#8220;idiocracy&#8221; more often.\u00c2\u00a0 It comes from a\u00c2\u00a0 2006 movie of the same name that was largely forgotten ( on balance, probably a fair fate).\u00c2\u00a0 The opening scene was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}