Wherein I give props to xkcd

[brynndragon]

Thank you xkcd for talking about an idea which I was willing to suspend disbelief for in order to have a laugh but have heard people actually spout as if it reflected reality. You see, in order to believe that premise you have to sincerely believe that smart people never ever do stupid things when it comes to sex. If you have such a belief, you clearly don't know any smart people (at least, you don't know them well enough ;P).

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[benndragon.livejournal.com]

Yes, Idiocracy was not an insightful commentary on the theory of downward intelligence drift - that was merely an means for letting Mike Judge do what he's built his career on: giving viewers the opportunity to watch stupid people do stupid shit and laugh their asses off. Which is why it's really annoying when people not only presume it's possible, but that it's even true. What, we can figure out that big robots that turn into cars is fake but we can't figure out that stupid people aren't taking over humanity?