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Idiocracy… comedy or documentary?
When I was studying at University, I remember watching this movie “Idiocracy”. It’s a hilarious movie about a future generation that actually “devolves” to a generation of morons, rather than “evolve”. The guy in that movie is a mediocre librarian in an army base, he does nothing but swats flies. His boss signs him up for a secret army experiment, where he was supposed to sleep for 1 year. Meanwhile, the army base somehow gets embroiled in scandals and shuts down. Everyone eventually forgets about this guy sleeping in a closed box. Slowly centuries would pass when smart people in the world stop reproducing, but drug addicts and bullies reproduce…
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Man came from Monkey? Dude… seriously?
I remember during 7th grade or so, my history teacher talked about Australopithecus, Zinjanthropus, Pithecanthropus, and Neanderthal men. I am surprised I still remember these terms because it was a “very important question” for the final exam. But there was one thing I didn’t quite understand. The concept of, “Man came from monkey” sounded utterly stupid to me. I asked my mom if it was true. And she said yes. Because, of course, she learned that when she was in high school as well. I walked on the road carrying my school bag looking at buffaloes and goats. I asked my friends, “Why aren’t buffaloes and goats intelligent? Why did…
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Internet – the intra-terrestrial world
Whenever I have a question, I google them. It didn’t work that way years before. People had to go to libraries and refer to pages. Now, it’s like having a library at home that gives us the exact book we need, with the exact page to read. It’s like a genie in the lamp, I rub the lamp, and lo and behold, the genie answers my question. But what I see is how I see it. I type in, “Proof that God exists”, I get a million hits. I type in, “Proof that God doesn’t exist”, I get a million hits for that too. I type in, “World’s going to end”,…
