Idiots and IDIOLOGY

I have never been more disturbed and annoyed while watching a movie, than I was while watching Idiology.  I found this movie to be repulsive and more disturbing than any horror film I’ve ever seen.  This film really made me think about what direction our world is going, and one of the reasons why I found it so repulsive, is probably because a part of me thinks that the future in that film may actually be plausible.

    In class we discussed how abbreviated language is now being incorporated into normal conversation, and is no longer just an Internet craze.  The younger kids, I’ve noticed, are the main culprits of this Internet slang phenom, and it really bothers me when I hear an eight-year-old talking on her cell phone saying words, OUT LOUD, like ‘lol’, ‘omg’, or ‘ttyl’, like maybe these acronyms were actual words. 

     This is also scary, because the film also pointed out how slang, stemming mainly from lower socio-economic classes, had replaced the language that we know today, and actually made our ‘normal’, non-slang language, an atrocious thing.  I think it will be an awful day when our society, or any society, becomes so lazy, or so intertwined with itself, that normal words and conversation are lost among the slang, or Internet-created words (if you can even classify them as words).

     I hope that people realize what direction this may take our society. Even though the beginning of this virtual world/real world blending may not lead to a horrible future, like the one in the film, it is important that everyones’ notices the change, and makes a decision for themselves about what is important for the future, and what is important for our culture.