NARRATIVE – Father of twelve children, the multibillionaire close to Donald Trump, soon to head a ministry of government efficiency, wants to encourage intelligent women to have children. He gives of himself, pleases the conservatives but remains in his ideas and in his habits very far from their values.
In 2007 the film was released Idiocracy. The story of a soldier with extremely average intelligence cryogenically frozen by the army in the company of a young prostitute with extremely average intelligence because no one would regret them if the experience went wrong . It goes wrong and the forgotten guinea pigs wake up 500 years later in a stupid America where the most watched show features a man who gets his testicles crushed in all kinds of ways, and where their banal IQ raises them to the rank of gifted. The film, very funny, of rare vulgarity, enjoyed late success and at best serves as a malignant satyr. For Elon Musk, boss of Tesla, Space “US Department of Government Effectiveness”it is an existential reference.
From the story Elon Musk, father of twelve children from three different women, especially remembers the introductory scene. We see two clean-cut thirty-somethings, Trevor and Carol, confiding in a feverish voice that yes, they want children. “It’s an important decision,” Trevor, however, evades. In the next shot, a disheveled and visibly poor woman bellows: “you knocked me up again!” to her screaming husband “shit !” in return. Five years pass. Trevol and Carol, as chic as ever, squirm. “Having a child now, with the economic situation…” In the meantime, the depicted woman has become a grandmother. The point aims to explain that the idiots won the democratic war because of the procrastination of the most educated.
In Musk’s eyes, Idiocracy is not a fantasy but a risk that humanity runs, confirms Laurent Alexandre…
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