Escape the Idiocracy, Before Things Fall Apart Full: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-yFindICbSE
Channel: Jamaican on Saipan!
Date: 25/01/2024

My name is Walt Goodridge, the Jamaican on Saipan! Join me as I answer questions about life on the islands of Saipan, Tinian & Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and offer peeks into the islands' lifestyle, culture, history and activities for people interested in escaping, relocating, history buffs, tourists and the culture-curious! https://www.waltgoodridge.com

THINGS FALL APART 
"One of the more fascinating phenomena to observe in modern society is that of people with limited life experience, inadequate vocabulary and delusional thinking attempting to understand, navigate and explain reality to themselves and others."--Walt F.J. Goodridge

When people who don't know how the world works
start to work in the world,
the world no longer works as it should

When people who don't know why policies are enacted
start to enact policy,
ideology steers policy

When people who don't understand why laws are made
start to make laws,
laws become toothless

When people who don't know how jobs function
are hired to function in jobs,
incompetence abounds

When people who don't understand the natural order
try to re-order what's natural,
feelings replace facts

When people who've never been held accountable
face ethical decisions,
ethics are abandoned

When people who've failed based on merit
are allowed to advance,
self-entitlement soars

When people who can't define the words they use
speak from positions of influence,
words lose their meaning

When people who prioritize opinions over facts
are given control,
opinions become reality

When systems that prioritize quotas over quality
are placed in operation,
systems implode

When people who don't respect others' individual authority
are given authority over others,
authority becomes authoritarianism

When people who never learned how a society advances
advance in society,
society regresses

When people of limited life experience and intelligence
rise to positions of governance,
Idiocracy ensues

In other words...
When people who don't know how things work
start to work on things
 ...things fall apart

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OPENING
 https://pixabay.com/videos/people-street-society-to-walk-159458/

THE WORLD NO LONGER WORKS AS IT SHOULD
(a) "Lazy TikTok Girl Is Laid Off & Doesn't Understand Why" https://youtube.com/watch?v=RfB4S7QHH3w
(b) Cloudfare employee records firing: https://youtube.com/watch?v=u7G7OpgKROw

IDEOLOGY STEERS POLICY
(a) https://pexels.com/video/climate-change-fridays-for-future-science-for-future-united-behind-science-4277529/
(b) https://pexels.com/video/image-of-a-baby-produced-by-ultrasound-procedure-7088947/


LAWS BECOME TOOTHLESS
(a) Daily Mail webpage: https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12166427/MEGHAN-MCCAIN-Lawless-Americas-insanity-Lululemon-fires-brave-women-standing-thieves.html
(b) California 7-Eleven workers beat robber with stick until suspect starts crying
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eIFKtOsZl8c

INCOMPETENCE ABOUNDS
(a) Alaska Airlines jet that had emergency exit plug blow out during flight...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cOqwAGCGK4g
(b) Inside the Alaska Airlines’ Emergency Landing (WSJ)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6tQmKDtxZV0

FEELINGS REPLACE FACTS
"When Men Fight Back" https://youtube.com/watch?v=AyZ7DZL57M4&t=316s

ETHICS ARE ABANDONED
(a) Elizabeth Holmes Vibes: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PjnsYz-xdOI 
(b) Sam Bankman-Fried Reuters: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kngo8cb0BGA

SELF-ENTITLEMENT SOARS
A TikTok Trend Promotes Laziness At Work
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mCeh9PElMpg

WORDS LOSE THEIR MEANING
(a) My Grammar Police & Youtube Idiocracy Rant!  https://youtube.com/watch?v=JMeQlW577pk
(b) Marcus Jones "28 YouTube Shorts Hacks That Feel Illegal To Know
https://youtube.com/watch?v=37TU8e0GlMw
(c) Jeremy from theQuartering  (any video!) :-) Love ya, Jeremy!
(d) Russell Brand IT’S OVER! This Fauci SCANDAL Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
(e) Literally girl: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h6zX26stXMo
(f) Jawzercise https://youtube.com/watch?v=mcWRUChR8Tw

OPINIONS BECOME REALITY
(a) Protest: https://pexels.com/video/protest-in-the-street-6258149/
(b) Graphic by Adam Maida https://theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/when-men-get-pregnancy-symptoms-couvade-syndrome/619083/

SYSTEMS IMPLODE
(a) Graphic from headline: https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12219265/Stockton-Rush-said-didnt-hire-50-year-old-white-guys-NOT-inspirational.html
(b) OceanGate implosion animation: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QaV__EcyKGU

AUTHORITY BECOMES AUTHORITARIANISM
https://pixabay.com/videos/mask-facemask-city-empty-wind-37420/

SOCIETY REGRESSES
https://pexels.com/video/people-walking-on-the-street-854621/

IDIOCRACY ENSUES
clips from the movie Idiocracy by Mike Judge

 ...AND THINGS FALL APART
(a) Demolition: https://pixabay.com/videos/destruction-detonation-explosion-5775/
(b) Crash sound effect: https://youtube.com/watch?v=27zVYbwSezQ

SOUNDTRACK
 "The Earth Dies Screaming" UB40
  Dub version found at: https://youtube.com/@mrbickle3113