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The State of the End of the Millennium Address

Essay regarding Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address to the US.

Eisenhower asked for this country to maintain its prestige and leadership by putting our awesome power into “the interests of world peace and human betterment.”
Unfortunately, with the exception of a few radicals and angry families with dead relatives, the citizens of this so-called democracy are doing nothing to avoid, or even slow the process of, becoming a country with no natural resources… or allies.
At this rate, Idiocracy isn’t too far from the truth.

Mike Judge wrote and directed this offbeat sci-fi comedy, which gives a new meaning to the expression “people are getting dumber all the time.” In 2005, Pvt. Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is a soldier chosen to take part in a secret military scientific experiment in which he will be put into induced hibernation for one year, along with a woman named Rita (Maya Rudolph). Bowers is chosen for the assignment because he is statistically the most average man in the Army, while Rita is a hooker ordered to do some community service; however, Bowers and Rita are forgotten when the military base where the experiment took place is closed down, and when they wake up in the year 2505, Bowers finds himself living in a society where intelligence has taken such a landslide he’s now the smartest man in the world. Can Bowers save America from its own remarkable stupidity, and he can he get the dunderheads around him to believe what he says? Produced under the title 3001, Idiocracy also stars Dax Shepard as Bowers’s numb-skull lawyer, Stephen Root as a judge, and Terry Crews as Camacho, a former porn star and professional wrestler who is now president of the United States.

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