• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Idiocracy was a movie working from the naive assumption that people are greedy and shortsighted, and that these attributes lead to social (and eventually genetic) decay.

    Americans have to deal with a much harder truth. That being smart doesn’t make you virtuous and lust for power more than simple hedonistic greed is what cultivates the worst social policies. Our story is a story of pure hubris. Its a story of reasonably intelligent and educated people gaming a system that causes pain in order to pay them a profit.

    We’re doing much worse than Idiocracy.

    America’s sins aren’t sloth or lust or gluttony nearly so much as they are wrath and pride.