My sister and I were chatting on Facebook, and she happened to mention that the world was becoming exactly like the movie. But I had noticed a small detail about the movie that I think most people overlook... the fact that all of the machines that provide medical assistance and food were still working. As a matter of fact, who designed those machines? Who built them? They are WAY too advanced for an idiot to have come up with. My theory is... as the number of "slow" people in the world went up, the smarter people realized that they would soon be outnumbered. So they developed a way to live on another planet, and everyone with an IQ over... lets say, 100, was shipped off and lived happily in a much more mature and sophisticated world. Those people eventually went on to live lives very similar to Star Trek, or Dune. But they were too emotional (we're not all like Spock) to let their remaining stupid humans just die out. So they came back, and hid among the idiots, and developed machines that would allow the stupid people to get better when they were sick, and to get food when they were hungry. Of course, they couldnt PROVIDE the food, but they at least came up with the machines that would sell the food, so the people had easy access to it (not that many of them were smart enough to use them anyways). Isn't that nice of the smart people? I think they watched the idiots from space, and kept records of how things were going back on Earth as sort of a science experiment. Every once in a while, they would beam someone up and do a few tests... keep watch to see if evolution would fix itself and they would start getting IQ's back up above 10...
Okay, so maybe I overthought that. But part of what keeps people smart these days, what lets us know for sure that we aren't turning into that movie, is overthinking things like that. When you can analyze a movie to the point where you notice the little things... obviously our minds are still in good working order.
At least, mine is :)
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