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[Mark Shaw]

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.

[Mark Shaw]

Post by Mark Shaw
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.

[Cryptoengineer]

Post by Mark Shaw

Post by Mark Shaw
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

[danny burstein]

In <v4vh1v$25ejk$***@dont-email.me> Cryptoengineer <***@gmail.com> writes:

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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.

Next up: Vacuum cleaners with added noise. Especially
"whole house" units that would otherwise be whisper quiet..

[Lynn McGuire]

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Post by Mark Shaw

Post by Mark Shaw
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

Ford F-150 trucks with the dual turbo ecoboost V6 play V8 sounds over
the radio. I find it to be quite stupid.

Lynn

[Cryptoengineer]

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Post by Cryptoengineer

Post by Mark Shaw

Post by Mark Shaw
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

Ford F-150 trucks with the dual turbo ecoboost V6 play V8 sounds over
the radio.  I find it to be quite stupid.
Lynn

A lot of cars do this:
https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/fake-engine-noise
[I don't understand the claim that Tesla Model 3s do
this, mine certainly doesn't.]

We need to differentiate fake engine noise inside the car
to please the driver's inner 12-year old, and
pedestrian warningnoises (PWN)

PWN have been required since Sept 2019. It's noise, with
certain loudness and spectral properties, that the car
has to make to warn pedestrians when it's travelng at
low speed (under 20 mph).

My own Tesla is just a little too old for this requirement,
and doesn't have the speaker in the front bumper for it.

Early on, the Tesla version allowed that driver to specify
their own mp3 file for the noise. I was annoyed that I
couldn't make my car use The Jetson's car sound:

NHTSA stomped on that eventually, and forced Tesla to
use only approved tracks.

pt

[Scott Dorsey]

Post by Mark Shaw
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.

Could be Kornbluth's _Marching Morons_ although Kornbluth has several
other stories set in that same world. He is one of my favorite authors
and deserves to be read more than he is these days.
--scott

[Michael Benveniste]

Post by Mark Shaw
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.