I know: I took a couple months off again. The problem is that either I'm too busy with something [probably something too incomplete to discuss yet] to mention it, or, being not busy with anything, I've got nothing much worth mentioning.

Of course, at the moment, I'm busy with Terroristan. But I'm also mostly just thinking about how to do a few things with it. So I've got a minute.

Also, I stopped playing Rise of Nations for a bit. Which I mostly do while I'm thinking about other stuff.

I noticed something interesting...uh, today. Ish. I probably caught it a long time ago, but...nevermind. I do a lot of typing. Whether that's writing or not. Like, every day, I'm putting something into a computer, or a laptop, or a palmtop, or a modded DSLite, or a phone. Whatever it is, I'm adding things to it somehow. Which suggests that, probably, the reason I never get a book done in a week or two anymore is that I'm wasting all this typing on chatrooms and stuff. Though, as far as I'm concerned, a chatroom is just another videogame: lurk, wait for creatard to assert something both stupid and misspelled, laugh at it, watch it try to support its makebelieve with more makebelieve, and so on; until, eventually, the whole chatroom [usually including other creatards] get that the thing's a moron; then ignore it for failing to display a purpose on my planet and move on to the next; no GameShark needed.

Anyway: I should probably put some thought into that sometime. Waste less time exterminating meatbots and put more time into actually writing. Whether that's a novel, gremlin.net, or whatever. Might be something to do.

Yesterday, I had this other thought. Again. Probably. That I should probably start up a competitor for Wasted and fill it with cute, meaningless shit which dumb people like. Just because, looking over the numbers and all...of all the stuff at Wasted as of now, the simplest, dumbest things are outselling all the stuff I'd actually buy. Unless you count the stuff I do actually buy. Then it's about equal.

Of course, I mentioned the idea to Hunter, who countered with the fact that her store is cute, meaningless shit already. So starting up a third one would probably be redundant; Hunter's thing is likely to end up with World's Greatest Dumbass coffeemugs and If You Can Read This, You're Too Literate bumperstickers.

Man, people are dumb....

Saw a film. Idiocracy. I'd put that off for a while since everyone going on about it like it was the cleverest, most highlarious thing ever happened to be people who think it's a form of magic that dog is god spelled backwards and who don't understand when I mention that, also, Zeus is opposite Suez. Also, it has a stupid title. Which I should explain.

The word idiocracy means...let's start simpler. The word idios means, ultimately, person. In fact, inasmuch as the word idiot is now being 'misused' to depict any random guy, whether his IQ is above twenty or not, it's actually derived from idios and etymologically has the same meaning as layman.

That said, idiocracy literally means personal government. Which makes idiocratic loosely mean of or relating to a grownup.

Then there's the film. And it was okay. Not great; but not nearly as bad as I'd feared it would be. What was of course as bad as I'd feared it would be was the content of its messageboard over at imdb.com. How bad? This is one of the smarter posts there:

All the bashing at this movie seems to revolve around how "lowbrow" and "immature" and "childish" it is.

May I suggest that this movie is a hell of a lot smarter than the people who present this argument. First off, you judge a work of art, and yes, popular cultural fiction is ALSO art, there is no intellectual or deep pocket monopoly on what is to be considered such - based on it's own premises. Where as you all see the words "fart" and "balls" and dismiss it outright. Not very smart.

Hell, if I may be so politically incorrect as to brag shamelessly for a minute, I have an astronomical IQ and I laughed my ass of at this movie. It's actually possible to be both smart and to enjoy slapstick and pop culture satire.

It's humor is still eons more advanced and honest than many of the traditional "pieces of cinema" acclaimed by the "cultural elite".

You don't like it, hell that's your right, people's tastes are different. But bashing this movie for being stupid is showing just how freaking stupid and out of touch with yourselves that you are.

Personally, I see the words it's own premises and dismiss it outright, its premise notwithstanding; astronomical IQ also notwithstanding.

It was a stupid film. It really, really was. That's not to say that it was a bad film; it bordered on amusing and all. That the narrator was belabouring every point to hell and back was suspicious: I'm not sure whether that was part of the gag, or if Judge et al actually figured that their targeted demographic would need a bit of help with something. Maybe both.

I did spot one thing I have severe doubts about, and it's not the common...hang on; I'll copypaste it: mmm there must of [sic] been some smart people. I'd guess that the last of the smart people [very presumably existing in a future following must of] set up automation to ensure production of the shit people were consuming in the twenty-sixth century. I just have real doubts that a film in the future would be ninety minutes long, as overexplained by the narrator; ninety seconds seems like a long time for today's morons to waste failing to comprehend something.

Of course, I also have doubts that mankind would survive long after the average IQ dropped beneath relative ninety. But that's a given. We've already seen that attempted in history. I've always found it amusing on two counts that A) The jews for obvious reasons opposed Hitler's failed attempts at selective breeding when they'd effectively invented it by promoting their smartest people to rabbinical status and all but demanding that they breed, resulting in modern jews being smarter than average, on average; also B) the christards did the same thing, but ameliorated their smartest to the priesthood and prevented them from reproducing. All of which is really funny given that I didn't see a church anywhere in the twenty-sixth century; I'm pretty sure that the dumbest people alive today are baptists--is it possible to slip to a level beneath even that?

I dunno. It was...a film. Worse than some; better than most. Which in a way is a pity: next time someone mentally deficient tells me to see this thing cos of that one part with the thing where the one guy did the thing, I won't be able to tell it that I've seen it and it sucks; the fact of the matter is more complex than that. Maybe I can just send it here and hope it can find a grownup to read this aloud.

More later....

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