Idiocracy Isn’t About Stupidity - It’s About Overstimulation

Описание: Idiocracy is usually framed as a warning about intelligence. But that’s not what it’s really diagnosing. In this episode of THINKPOP, we look at Mike Judge’s 2006 film alongside media theorist Neil Postman to explore how entertainment culture, algorithmic feeds, and convenience-driven systems quietly erode the conditions that make real thinking possible. This isn’t a story about people getting dumb. It’s about what happens when noise replaces thinking, and attention becomes the rarest resource on earth.
Chapters
00:00 This is THINKPOP
00:49 Idiocracy is About Overstimulation
03:20 The Story We Tell Ourselves
04:30 The Bridge to the Future
06:27 The World Built to Think For You
09:15 Brawndo Logic
11:52 The Prophet of Our Screens
14:30 You Are Not Dumb
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