IDIOCRACY

My son Karim introduced to me a movie he thought would go well with what has been inhabiting my thoughts lately and its called aptly "Idiocracy".


"Idiocracy is a 2006 American film, a satirical science fiction comedy, directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Terry Crews.
The film tells the story of two ordinary people who are taken into a top-secret military hibernation experiment which goes awry, and awaken 500 years in the future. They discover that the world has degenerated into a dystopia where advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism run rampant and dysgenic pressure has resulted in a uniformly stupid human society devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility and coherent notions of justice and human rights. Rather, this future society emphasizes anti-intellectualism, popularity, sexual attraction, and hedonism." Wilkipedia
500 years? If we do survive that long the chances are we might just end up being a whole lot worse than just becoming socio-morons and pschyophants we might just degenerate into zombies walking the planet looking for food for thoughts. Slowly but surely we are already paving the way towards such an event with the way our lives are more and more becoming obsessed with staying ahead of the next guy by hook or by crook. We are so driven by competitiveness loosing our humanity as a result.
The ambitious man seems to be the respected entity - the ambitious man, the aggressive man who wants to succeed, to intrigue, to pull strings and so get to the top of the heap. There is everlasting competition not only in the class room of a school but also in daily life, in the attitude of the clerk who feels he must become the manager and the manager the director and the director the board president and so on. This is the established pattern of existence in modern civilization. You see everywhere that man is after success and it is he who is respected, politically at least, and the same attitude exists in the school. We tell the student he is not as good, not as intelligent as another student. We coax the child, goad him, encourage him to compete, to succeed, to arrive at a certain intellectual level. We are worshippers of labels.
To produce the balanced individual, the 'Perfect Man", 'Al Insan Kamil', it is inevitable that we go deeply into the process of revamping education where students are prepared for the global age of communication and integration. We invest in our young as we believe in the fact they are our future and it is in this investment that we have to ensure that they are being honed towards not only their self preservation but the preservation of the whole of mankind. To instill within them the spirit of the "Collective Mind' a wholesome creative and productive mind , selfless and genuine in the spirit of humanity. This is the Universal Mind that will inherit the future, that will safegaurd the integrity of the 'Collective Conciousness'.