Idiocracy famously featured what movies would look like in the future. The memorable example was Ass – a two hour blockbuster that consisted of video, shot from behind, of one person’s bare ass, as they stood in one place. Periodically, the ass lifted a cheek and farted, much to the delight of theater-goers. In the future depicted by the movie, the movie was everywhere, audiences were captivated, and it swept the Academy Awards, even winning the Best Screenplay Oscar.
It turns out that prediction was a bit off. As r-selection takes hold, atrophied amygdalae that are ever more unnerved by reality seek distractions from it. As that progresses, movies increasingly rely on shock value to capture and hold the attention of amygdalae, like a vice, so no excess focus is available to apply to reality.
Case in point, Kuso, the first feature film from musician Flying Lotus:
Kuso, the first feature film from musician Flying Lotus, was so gross it sparked massive walkouts at the Sundance Film Festival when it was screened this week…
… the troubling scenes – including footage of an erect penis being stabbed – prompted many in the theater to leave in disgust…
Some of the notable grotesque scenes included a man having sex with a talking boil on a woman’s neck, genital mutilation and a doctor (played by funk legend George Clinton) who keeps a ‘toddler-sized’ cockroach in his anus…
… There’s also a scene in which a pygmy eats a maggot-infested soup…
‘At one point, [actor Tim] Heidecker is framed mid-coitus with what appears to be a hybrid of a turkey and a human torso, and it’s maybe the fifteenth most unsettling image in the film,’ Consequence of Sound reviewer Dominick Suzanne-Mayer recalled…
… a boil-covered woman choked a man with a strap until he covered half her face with semen that looked like a muted version of Nickelodeon slime…
… a woman chewed on concrete until her teeth disintegrated… an alien creature force-yanked a fetus from another woman’s womb… then smoked the tiny corpse,’…
Have no illusions. Human brains crave down-regulating amygdala somehow. Narcissists do it by fucking up everyone around them, and then contemplating how much better their life is by comparison. Liberals try to destroy successful businesses and great nations for similar reasons. Decent people crave relaxation and the company of loved ones. People in stressful jobs crave going home.
Those who would watch an amygdala-grabbing movie like this are distracting themselves from a reality they do not want to face. You did not see this in post-WWII 1950’s America, where Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant enjoyed innocent adventures punctuated by amusing banter. Those amygdala hardened World War vets enjoyed the world around them, so a shockingly disgusting movie like the one above was not at all preferable for any reason.
This is the mark of increasing amygdala atrophy, and until the Apocalypse cleanses the population, expect a race to the bottom – especially once the Apocalypse is in effect.
Spread r/K Theory, because we don’t want movies about toddler-sized anal cockroaches
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this movie sounds as if it was made by and for the same demons who created “Hellstorm”- the demonic and satanic creatures (jews) who visited sadistic tortures beyond any normal human imagining upon the german prisoners, women and children in poland after ww2. I try not to recall anything I read in that book. satan lives, and his minions dwell among us. God save us from these monsters.
Nope. A poor destitute descendant of slaves it seems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Lotus
Very interesting insight on the liberal being the macro version of the narcissist.
Idiocrcracy is a great tool. There are those who think it’s a comedy, and those who think it’s horror. We know which group is which.
People drink alcohol and smoke a lot too, and with cannabis becoming legalized I assume that will become common as well. I’ve met 2 people so far working at gas stations/pharmacies and both told me that smoking cannabis/tobacco is how they “deal” with a stressful job dealing with the public. Is that perfectly fine in terms of the amygdala? When does it go too far?
I think it is fine, so long as you can do it, ie things are r. But when things turn K, there will come a point where being too much of a care-free hippy type will not work. That aversive stimulus that drives violence has purpose, and it was advantageous under the right circumstances.
I see r in myself a lot now, where I don’t make a big deal about things, which, if it were the Apocalypse, I would be much more worked up over, and feel I had to deal with aggressively. Brains change with the environment, and I think a good lesson from r/K is that although those changes may not be pleasant, they are useful to the end goal of survival and reproduction, and the angst may even make things more pleasant in the long run. A lot of very rich people seem ultra neurotic and freaked out, in ways a lot of much less rich veterans, who endured awful stuff, are not.
I think the capacity to structure your time and defer gratification obviously is a major difference between r and K in times of r. You don’t just drift through the day on autopilot waiting to shop or smoke or drink or whatever. You try to make your life a disciplined whole, and not bounce from distraction to distraction, which is what most people seem to do.
Wow. Look at all the Klansmen and Nazis in the comments. “Descendent of slaves” referring to Jews as “satanic creatures”. What the fuck undiagnosed condition do you mental midgets suffer from? Die from disease, please. Spare us of your miserable existence.
Notice the attempt to link the opposition to amygdala trigger terms to reflexively out-group, rather than putting forth any logical argument. Then he follows up with a wish for the free resources of seeing his enemies die without any action by himself.
Leftists are robots.