{"id":74941,"date":"2020-08-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74941"},"modified":"2020-08-06T14:53:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T19:53:38","slug":"when-reality-imitates-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74941","title":{"rendered":"When Reality Imitates Satire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to &#8220;joke&#8221; &#8211; especially living as a Republican in places like Saint Paul &#8211; that &#8220;Mike Judge&#8217;s cult classic <em>Idiocracy <\/em>isn&#8217;t a comedy, it&#8217;s a documentary&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2013-05-25\/western-iqs-drop-14-points-last-century-study-says\">you &#8211; we &#8211; are not wrong<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for exactly the reason Judge lampooned&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why are we supposedly getting dumber?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Previous research has found that women of higher intelligence are\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2013\/05\/23\/Last-century-Western-nations-lost-an-average-14-IQ-points\/UPI-77081369362633\/?spt=hs&amp;or=hn\" target=\"_blank\">having fewer children<\/a>, meaning women of lower intelligence are driving population growth, according to the study.<\/p><p>Over time, experts say, that would affect the average IQ of a population.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;or &#8220;lampooned&#8221;, as the case may be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006) Mike Judge\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sP2tUW0HDHA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s only funny if you don&#8217;t look at the world around you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to &#8220;joke&#8221; &#8211; especially living as a Republican in places like Saint Paul &#8211; that &#8220;Mike Judge&#8217;s cult classic Idiocracy isn&#8217;t a comedy, it&#8217;s a documentary&#8221;. But you &#8211; we &#8211; are not wrong: And for exactly the reason Judge lampooned&#8230; So why are we supposedly getting dumber? Previous research has found that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,49,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-science","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74942,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74941\/revisions\/74942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}