On that theme the Marching Morons by Cyril M. Kornbuth is much better. Idiocracy is a wholesale steal of the concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Sisk, Kris <ks...@gckschools.com> wrote: > > Movie recommendation: Idiocracy. It's not the best movie but the theme > is that stupid people massively outbreed smart people. You'll find it in > the comedy section, but I always thought it deserved to be in horror. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Roberts [mailto:ow...@threeravensconsulting.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 6:07 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: RE: Controversy swells as Obama supports Ground Zero mosque > > > I call it self enforced stupidity. Ignorance can be cured by education, > but > stupidity, whether caused by mental limitations or a persons refusal to > learn despite the facts is a terminal illness that cannot be cured. > Unfortunately, for those who impose it on themselves, it is not terminal > quick enough so they can't breed and pass on their genetic disposition > to > self enforced stupidity and create more stupid people. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:56 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Controversy swells as Obama supports Ground Zero mosque > > > I think there 'stupidity' and 'willful stupidity' are 2 different > things. > > I understand that some people are stupid and do not know it. But there > are others who are stupid, know it, and don't care. The latter group > would be the 'willful stupidity" > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I wonder about the willful part. Sometimes the stupids are just so > stupid >> they doesn't know they are stupid. >> >> "Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by >> legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being > stupid. > But >> stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, > there >> is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without > pity." >> ~Robert Heinlein >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >>> >>> I despise stupidity, and even more so, I despise willful stupidity. >>> >> >> >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325414 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
