Marching morons rant

The marching morons is a very good short story written in 1951 by Cyril Cornbluth. It predicts a future of infantile and unintelligent humans that have completely overpopulated the earth. They travel about in electric cars that are none-the-less wired to make loud sounds, and to spew out copious amounts of smoke. They drink only colorful sports beverage.
There is a movie based on the story, and it is called Idiocracy. It is able to use some recent changes that have taken place in the US to predict an even more absurd future.

As i move about in my obstinate old man manner, i am confronted by these folk. Obese blobs whipping by in huge showy SUVs, while eating crunchy bits and chatting on the phone. I was once on the good side of the inequality, with the backing of a prosperous family, and posessing the right qualities of youth, male gender, extra height, education, white color, etc. Well, i have crossed firmly over to the have-nots now, and it is really different. I collect food stamps, await crappy Chineese items in a mailbox that quickly fills with paper advertisements, drive a ruined car, etc. When i try to work, i am asked about my licensing and bonding. Only jobs that have been rejected by all bonded workers are offered, and that sort of work often goes unpaid. They are other poor folks, forced to troll the local bulletin boards, looking for a new poor worker to defraud. It is just business! 

People once chose their contractors according to skill level, but now almost all work seems to be insurance driven. Insurance companies decide what work will be done, and who will do it. The morons decide which insurance company will hold onto their emergency money, and tell them what to do and when. They brag to one another when they feel that they have ripped off or defrauded an insurance company. And yet, they long to be 'covered' for any unfortunate events that might occur. And, of course, they do not need to save money in case they have an emergency. that is what insurance is for! 

Being covered by every type of insurance does not make the morons jolly. Instead, they seem desperate, and needing to do some 'business' of their own. Let the buyer beware of Craigslist and e bay! Using their telephone and computer, the pudgey super heroes attempt to strike back at other consumers for the blows that they have suffered. I understand the feeling. I have recently spent hours on the phone trying to contact state insurance, making mistake after mistake in a clearly intended circular path that has the caller speak to tape machine after tape machine with no results at all. I feel the futility that must be intended. The rich do whatever they want, and the poor march around in circles and wait on lines.

Modern humans ought not to be herded into rooms (schools), and made to look and listen to explosions (cars) and loud advertisements all day long. It keeps their feeble minds on the subjects of travel and money. Nature is portrayed as something to avoid by using electronic equipment. Everyones best friend is the steaming dragon that awaits them at all times (their car again).

An obvious campaign has been waged to get the marching morons to live short lives where they are frightened into staying put, and performing some pointless repetative task instead of learning and traveling and growing plants.

It would not work, except that the morons are kept constantly immersed in the false illusion, and confined/protected in the middle of a herd of other marching morons. Constant advertisements and explosions are required to keep them from returning to their natural state of wonder. I don't mean to suggest some giant conspiracy theory. It is not necessary. All that is needed is to concentrate on money and it's admirable amassing.

The country of Syria recently downsized it's population. It was only business! They used their military to throw out the fraction of the population that was not desired. They forced them to march themselves over the border, where they would become something between somebody else's problem, and a weapon of economic war. The United States is doing something similar. People are being forced from their homes, and converted into economic refugees. It is a culture of fear that keeps workers at absurd jobs. Mechanization is helping to eliminate jobs that have not been outsourced to poorer countries. There appears to be No alternative to a future with self driving cars and robots that can drive or work way better than a person.

Americans don't really do much anymore. They pay for stuff to be done, and say that THEY did it. Or they do work with fossil fuel, and claim that THEY did the work. Their lives are entirely scripted, and they have almost no choice in the direction that their lives go. Seeking money is really what they do. Art and exercise is mostly ignored. Making money seems to be enough for most folks. 

Get enough of the green stuff, and avoid getting GOD angry, and you have it licked.
That is the motto!
I say that life is too short to be confused about the purpose of life itself. Life is for looking at the spark in oneself and others. what is that spark?
Its pretty!
end rant