Idiocracy -- Bush's world?

The news that the Isreali police have busted a hard core Neo-Nazi gang in Isreal kind of defines the old Defeatist WOPF/WTF view of the world in ways that I could only dream of articulating. We have the Dave Chappelle-black blind white supremacist here in a great way. However, it made me think a lot more than I wanted to...and it made me think of devolution and idiocracy. Idiocracy is a fairly interesting example of devolution -- the Wilson bros are the stoner-surfer version of the Baldwins, of course. The film is kind of like the Burton version of 1984 only filmed by drunken midget terrorists. Think dystopia -- a combination of 1984, The Big Lebowski and Scarey Movie and Candide. It's actually not a bad way to wile away the time waiting for Countdown.

AGI's sudden conversion to Islam -- which probably won't take, the lad has ADD issues combined with a bright intelligence that has only been mildly warped by being a OC type -- would be an example of cultural devolution. Potato puffs are the devolution of the potato; the current crop of Kennedys is an example of devolution. The Bushes don't count -- they are more an example of an evolutionary dead end, what happens when WASPs keep inbreeding. Hopefully, Laura's infusion of genetic material might make a difference down the road, rising them to the intellectual capacity of hillbilly sharecroppers from Incest Springs. The fact that FOX has shows like Family Guy and The Simpsons is an example of devolution. The entire history of Christianity is one of devolution...when ultimately, the most Christian of Christians no longer believes in God, you got a great case of devolution.

The current state of Pop music is totally devolved. Anyway, Idiocracy has some nice touches -- the average Joe kibifle and a hooker are put into suspended animation and awaken in a world ruled by Gatorade, Karl's Junior and COSTCO. The average IQ has devolved to somewhere around mouldy Velveeta's; there is famine in the world, largely because crops are being watered by the Gatorade company. The president is a WWF/Mr. T type. Everybody has a bar code on their wrist. The world is one big landfill...

Well, that's where we are headed. Prevention might be to go read something, but I am not sanguine about that -- the local library smells of stale feet, and the local bookstore is Walmart. I went down to San Bernanrdino yesterday, and California is beginning in the crowed areas -- which is everything but the deserts -- to look a lot like the set of Streets of Fire. They had planted cypress along side the roadway between the expressway and the railroad tracks at one point; yesterday, they were cutting them down.

The sub-prime mortgage market is an example of devolution. The hard-top convertible is an example of devolution. The Suuuurrrrggggeeee is an example of devolution. Rummy and Wolfie are examples of devolution, from MacNamara and Rostow to Cheech and Chong. Colin Powell is an example of devolution, from George Marshall to "Look at me, I'll never lie to you..." Hell, you could contend with some degree of success is that George W Bush is an example of multiple levels of devolution. He makes Bill Clinton look like Franklin Roosevelt, and his dad look like Ike. Bennie the Rat is an example of accelerated devolution.

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[Comandante Agi]

Speaking of deevolution, I was privileged to attend a Mormon funeral yesterday. It was a wake for my wife's great-great aunt, or fifth cousin twice removed or something...Anyways, instead of eulogizing the dead, her Mormon "brothers" and "sisters" rattled on for about an hour how great Mormonism is. Then a "bishop" got up to explain the God head and how one should look to Mormonism to answer all of life's difficult questions. I'm used to Catholic funerals, so I wasn't expecting any proselytizing during an open casket wake. The Mormons finally bolted when four Catholic nuns arrived to lead the crowd in the rosary.