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On 6/14/2024 11:31 PM, Mark Shaw wrote:
> What's the short story that inspired the film "Idiocracy"?
> 
> Or maybe didn't "inspire" it, but the idea is the same. Might have
> been late Golden Age.

Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons" and Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron"
come to mind, but apparently the story was "inspired" by a trip to
Disneyland.

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