"Stupid people think it's cool.
Smart people think it's a joke. Also cool."
Rise Of The Idiots- Dan Aschcroft (C4 TV series- Nathan Barley)
Up The Resolution (Nathan Barley)
Slinky Pics (Nathan Barley)
Idiocracy movie outline
Let's get retarded - Black Eyed Peas track
T-shirt announces the stupidity access-drug of choice
Would your society be improved by 50% less or 50% more of the following?:
Alcohol consumption
CCTV and surveillance
Drug-misuse
Gossip magazines
Naff television
ET CETERA
Currently nobody is making judgments on these areas to form policies. Social Engineering is happening by default through market forces.
The consequences of 12 years of relativism and market choice can be seen on almost every street corner in Britain
"Kant, that quintessential figure of Enlightenment, argues that we don't need God or religion to tell us what is good: we can discover the moral law and our own freedom simultaneously - not in biology or some divine text but in ourselves, by dint of reason."
Source: Right Reasoning
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The Nathan Barley show might be a contemporary embodiment of the Economist's mission... "to take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress."
ReplyDeleteI like the 50% thought experiment. Intelligence vs. Ignorance. 50 per cent thought experiment versus 50 cent.