Idiocrazy.

Idiocracy. It is the only comedy that will turned into a documentary. This movie is an obvious satire for what could happen to the world. The movie starts with two couples. One is intelligent and rational while the other is impulsive and reactionary. This gets the ball rolling for the increase of the less intelligent population. As the dumber people accidentally reproduce they increase the amount of dumb people, and as the smart people are hesitant to reproduce they reduce the amount of smart people in the world. This movie takes the world to an extreme. Like the movie poster suggests man evolved from apes and now are reverting back to apes.

In Idiocracy the most average man the government can find becomes the smartest man in 500 years. But how? This movie is a satire for the the lack of intelligence humans will have as time progresses. The people in this society are only worried about what is happening on TV, money, and getting laid. Writer Mike Judge predicts that people will only care about what's happening to the stars and what's on TV. And he is right. According to Kid's Health, kids between eight and eighteen spend nearly four hours  day in front of a TV and almost an additional two hours on the computer (outside of homework). This number has been increasing over the past few years. This just shows that people are starting to rely on technology for many things starting at an early age. It's hard for kids to get off their phones in class because they feel like they need it to stay connected to the people around them. But when your friend is sitting right next to you do you really need to text them? With all the new technology that's being invented everyday mailmen and bank tellers are becoming obsolete. Email and ATM machines are taking over the jobs that were once done by humans.

Darwin more like Darlose. 

Oppressed women?

Who is Serena Joy? She is the wife of the commander. She strikes the fear of God into Offred's body. She is an oppressed women. In this society there are a lot of women that are wronged. The handmaids are forced to have sex with the commanders, and the wives are forced to watch the ceremony and oblige to their husbands. But what is oppression? It is the prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control. There are a lot of things in this book that are more dystopian, but the oppression of women is not.

In marriages today women are oppressed. In countries like India women are not controlled. In India there are still arranged marriages. Marriage in India is more then two people that love each other finding each other. It is more of a way to attain "social adulthood" as the article says. If a women is lucky she will fall in love with her husband, but it takes time. In many cases it is a patrilocal marriage. This is when a women leaves her family and moves into the home of her husband. This may be where the oppression starts. A woman is living her home and family, where she has gotten nothing but unconditional love, to a new place with people she is unfamiliar with. She is chosen by her qualities, but not qualities we are used to. The families are interested in issues of virginity, chastity, protection of the girls, and other things that are more behavioral or physical in a girl. They care not about how the girl will adjust after she is married. In the 2001 Census in India, the records showed that 1.5 millions girls were married under the age of fifteen. Dystopian books have started to become more predictive. What does this mean about a book like this? Back in the 16th century royals only got married to reproduce for heirs to the throne. Since then the world has tried to change. But will we end up back in the 16th century?

What is a Handmaid?

Webster Dictionary defines it as, "a personal maid or female servant" but The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood defines them as fertile women brought and given to a family for the sole purpose of reproduction. In the society Atwood creates these women are the only hope for society to repopulate. So these girls are trained to lie down and try to pregnant. The book follows Offred. She is the handmaid for Commander Fred and Serena Joy. She is taken away from her husband Luke and her daughter. In the society it is totally normal to be taken away from your family if you are fertile, but to readers this is horrifying. To us this is similar to girls that are trafficked.

Offred and the other handmaids have been sex trafficked. The SEAMEO, or The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization, is an international organization established in 1965 among governments of Southeast Asian countries to promote regional cooperation in education, science, and culture in Southeast Asia. Trafficking in common in Asian countries. It is estimated that 1.2 million children are trafficked every year in Cambodia. There are many negative effects on the children that are trafficked. When you take a child and force them into sex trafficking it stops their normal life. They no longer attend school, develop mental problems, their beliefs change, and many other terrible things. They are hurt short term physically and they can be scarred in the long term. More so there is stress on their families to get them back. Many families end up pouring their money into returning their child. They tell the police, hire private investigator, and try to find them themselves. They try to find their kids as soon as possible, but it ends up being a dead end.