Idiocracy

Yes.

Idiocracy.

Idiocracy.

And what I'm saying, if we're a country that wants to compete on an international level, we have to have smarter people, better educated people.

And if you've got this gate up where you can't get into college because of money, We're creating dumber people.

When we don't like not getting fed three times.

The future of Idiocracy, they didn't know how to grow a single plant, and they were putting mountains on everything.

It's almost like they predicted the future.

But they s- were alive.

Everyone's been sort of busy, so it's, uh, we, we kind of want to do this more often, but it's just one of those seasons where a lot is going on and we haven't been able to get together, and I thought we'll start with the Americas as w- w- we often tend to do, and I'm gonna share my screen again because a few pieces of news here, basically starting with the North American Union, right? J- these things are just dropping.

Now Trump is jo- joking about renaming New Mexico to New America, and honestly, it's becoming like Idiocracy.

But we've already seen Gulf of Amer- Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America.

Lake Ontario, Lake America, right? Tech Native America.

Musk and his brethren seem more like escapees from this universe than the Asimovian super geniuses they imagine themselves to be.

It is Dick's far weirder sensibilities that offer the better guide to Silicon Valley today.

And throughout the article, they talk about how this dystopian tech is always kind of like failing or, or, or, or teetering on collapse, which is what I've said previously, that it's kind of like th- the movie Brazil with Idiocracy, you know, Total Recall.

It's, it's a fledgling dystopia, so.