#603: Idiocracy explain

[Cueball is standing in front of three shelves with DVDs, holding a single DVD in his hand looking at the cover. A guy with a white rounded safari hat (Safari Hat from now on) stands behind him.]

Cueball: Idiocracy is so true.

Safari Hat: I know, right? It used to be that the intelligent, upper classes had more children.

[Zoom in on their heads as Cueball turns towards Safari Hat.]

Safari Hat: Sadly, the recent reversal of this trend has dragged IQ scores and average education steadily downward.

Cueball: Depressing, huh?

[Zoom out to show Cueball holding the DVD down as Safari Hat lifts on arm towards him.]

Safari Hat: Yeah, except everything I just said was wrong.

Cueball: Huh?

Safari Hat: Wrong. False. The opposite of true.

[Zoom in only on Safari Hat.]

Safari Hat: You’re like the religious zealots who are burdened by their superiority with the sad duty of decrying the obvious moral decay of each new generation.

Safari Hat: And you’re just as wrong.

[Zoom out to both as before, but this time it is Cueball who holds up a finger.]

Cueball: But look at how popular—

Safari Hat: More harm has been done by people panicked over societal decline than societal decline ever did.

[Cueball spreads out his arms (the DVD gone) as Safari Hat has walked out off the panel.]

Cueball: Look — all we need is a program that limits breeding to—

Safari Hat (off-panel): New theory: Stupid people reproduce more because the alternative is sleeping with you.