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Path: ...!feed.opticnetworks.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: YASID Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 21:02:55 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: <v4vh1v$25ejk$1@dont-email.me> References: <v4j1uc$n8k$3@reader1.panix.com> <v4j2j4$d8h$1@reader1.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:02:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b052942a0df314191eebffc35094eafe"; logging-data="2275956"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18mqsRPURCdEK4zisamUqdMNk7BNXVzYIo=" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPad) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vm2nMMK0FsiCjiPKhgywtf6VheY= sha1:6ZdiJhT6fg+KArIizgsxt37m3Ps= Bytes: 1612 Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> wrote: > Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> 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. > > Never mind! I decided to kick my DuckDuckGoFu into high gear and > found it myself: "The Marching Morons" by Cyril Kornbluth. > In 'The Marching Morons', one way Homo Dumb was misled to think he lived a sophisticated life was that his mediocre cars played fake vroom vroom noises into the cabin. I was amused to find that now some 'sporty' cars do exactly this. Pt