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            Satire is the comedy of poking fun at something in society often in an attempt to highlight what’s wrong and to change it. These problems that are pointed out are often extremely over exaggerated. Satire is a funny alternative to more depressing ways of finding out what’s wrong such as seeing it in the news or watching a documentary.

            The movie that we watched was Idiocracy. The point that the movie is trying to address is actually the opening to the movie. The problem that the movie is about is that society is constantly declining intelligence level. It talks about how society used to reward people for being smarter than others, but how in the past century the opposite has become true. It was after this point that the movie started to over exaggerate everything by just a little bit. It said that smart families basically never have any kids and that low intelligence families have something around five hundred. When the movie then jumps several hundred years into the future, the population’s average intelligence is extremely low and the two people from the present who had average intelligence are now the smartest people alive by a long shot. Now, while these examples from the movie may be blown way out of proportion, they do have a valid point. Society is on a downfall because everyone is allowed to live, even if they don’t contribute to society in anyway. Although it may sound terrible, a new plague may be what the world needs in order to reset the balance.