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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-squareZexks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·19 hours 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-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-21 day agoEveryone reads books? Over half of Americans read at a 6th-grade level, at best.
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.
You are vastly over estimating literacy rates. And you cant really make that statement on any grounds as nothing of the like was discussed.
I have some bad news…
Everyone reads books? Over half of Americans read at a 6th-grade level, at best.