A peculiar thing happens when a political programme establishes who the fool, villain or villainous institution is before the audience has had much time to think. The room already knows how to respond. The host barely needs to finish the sentence. That doesn't automatically settle whether the argument is right or wrong, but it raises an interesting question about how the performance shapes the experience of watching it. I examine that question in my new video.
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It's easy to recognise conformity in other people. The political activist repeating a familiar slogan. The colleague who becomes furious when challenged. The stranger online who can produce a dozen insults but not one coherent argument. The harder part is recognising the same instincts when they appear in ourselves. That's where a comfortable observation becomes an uncomfortable mirror.
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When Mike Judge released *Idiocracy* in 2006, its premise was absurd enough to be funny: an average man wakes up in a future where intellectual standards have collapsed so dramatically that he becomes the smartest person around. Two decades later, the uncomfortable question is no longer whether such a future is imaginable. It's whether we've mistaken the warning signs for entertainment. In the latest Felix Rex video, I examine the forces that may be pushing modern America in precisely the wrong direction—and why the answer is more disturbing than a comedy about stupid people.
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