By the time you’re done reading this, you’ll understand why intelligence is treated like contraband.

Somewhere between “influencer culture” and billionaires launching penis-shaped rockets into the stratosphere, we slipped. Not stumbled—slipped. Like a clown stepping on a banana peel tossed by a focus group. We are now living in the Idiotocalypse™—a full-spectrum downgrade of civilization, brought to you by shareholders, state-sanctioned stupidity, and the algorithm.

And yes, this is why we can’t have nice things.

Not because we’re inherently dumb. But because idiocy sells. It scales. It distracts. It votes. It doesn’t ask questions. And most importantly: it doesn’t fight back.

Idiocy Isn’t an Accident—It’s an Industry

You think the average TikTok trend is just harmless fun? Think again. Behind every dance challenge and ‘girl dinner’ lies a trillion-dollar machine fine-tuned to weaponize distraction. Because if you’re busy watching a 23-year-old cry over a broken mascara wand, you’re not watching your government funnel billions into corporate subsidies while hospitals rot.

Idiocy is the opiate of the masses. And the dealers? Take a guess what about the
Parliament. Hollywood. Madison Avenue. Reporters … who else?

Let’s call it what it is: a mass-engineered attention deficit designed to keep you broke, entertained, and compliant.

Idiotocracy™: Where Mediocrity Gets Promoted

Have you noticed how the less someone knows, the louder they become? We live in a culture that gives microphones to the loudest fools and silences the quiet geniuses. The corporate ladder? It’s now a slide greased with buzzwords, ego, and PowerPoints made by people who have never read a book without pictures.

We’ve turned governance into reality TV.
Education into customer service.

Intelligence into chatbots
Science into “just an opinion.”
And truth? That’s now “divisive content.”

Meanwhile, nuance has gone the way of the cassette tape—nostalgic, endangered, and only appreciated by weird people on Reddit.

Idiocy is Profitable Because It’s Predictable

You can’t sell rebellion. You can’t market real thinking. But you can monetize dumb.
A distracted populace is a docile one. An uneducated workforce is a cheap one. A nation trained to crave novelty over depth is perfectly conditioned to obey.

So they give us junk food for the mind:

• Buzzfeed quizzes instead of policy literacy.
• Vapid influencers and sucking up reporters instead of investigative journalists.
• Political slogans instead of plans.
• “Like” buttons instead of labor unions.

Because critical thinking doesn’t trend.

The Cult of the Stupid is Not Funny Anymore

We used to laugh at it.
“Ha ha, people are dumb.”
But now those people run school boards, tech platforms, and entire political parties.
This isn’t satire—it’s the syllabus for the next school year.

And you, reader? You’re exhausted. Not because you lack intelligence—but because you’re fighting a constant drag of cognitive sewage every time you open your phone, attend a meeting, or turn on the news.

So Now What?

This isn’t a call to arms. It’s a call to awareness.
To choose discernment in an age of noise.
To sharpen your tongue, your instincts, your memory.
To read long things. To ask the second question. To piss off the algorithm by staying unpredictable.

We don’t need everyone.
We just need a few who remember how to think dangerously.

Let the rest burn their time on TikTok.
You? Build a mind so sharp it becomes a weapon.

Because in the age of curated idiocy, clarity is rebellion.

And rebellion is the last nice thing we still have.