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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