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minus-squareHonytawk@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·2 days agoIn Idiocracy, people are anti-science. If you were to read a book, they would call you a nerd and kill you. In real life, people believe in pseudo-science. Everyone read books, and believes that to be the ultimate truth and everybody else is wrong. In Idiocracy, you don’t have flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers. You have dumb people proud of not knowing stuff. So there is still a difference.
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days ago You have dumb people proud of not knowing stuff. So there is still a difference. I have some bad news…
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoEveryone reads books? Over half of Americans read at a 6th-grade level, at best.
minus-squareZexks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 day agoYou are vastly over estimating literacy rates. And you cant really make that statement on any grounds as nothing of the like was discussed.
minus-squareNurse_Robot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoHilarious comment coming from someone who consistently has spelling and grammar mistakes
In Idiocracy, people are anti-science. If you were to read a book, they would call you a nerd and kill you.
In real life, people believe in pseudo-science. Everyone read books, and believes that to be the ultimate truth and everybody else is wrong.
In Idiocracy, you don’t have flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers. You have dumb people proud of not knowing stuff.
So there is still a difference.
I have some bad news…
Everyone reads books? Over half of Americans read at a 6th-grade level, at best.
You are vastly over estimating literacy rates. And you cant really make that statement on any grounds as nothing of the like was discussed.
Hilarious comment coming from someone who consistently has spelling and grammar mistakes