Cattle Farm Civilization

(A Rant Against the Idiocracy of the West)

Look at the West today — Australia, America, England, Canada, most of Europe. What do you see? Nations that once prided themselves on innovation, industry, and pushing boundaries now reduced to cattle farms. Not citizens, not builders, not thinkers. Just herds of docile cows, fattened on cheap consumer junk and digital distractions, waiting for the slaughterhouse or milking shed while a tiny operator class — the elites, the profiteers — takes all the cream.

It didn’t happen overnight. It was engineered. Schools gutted technical knowledge, stripped out electronics, engineering, and the hard subjects. Once, you could at least do woodwork or metalwork — now even that’s vanishing. Instead, kids are handed tablets, fed coding “lite” lessons that teach nothing beyond dragging blocks in a game engine, and trained to worship screens. They don’t even know how a resistor works. They don’t know what solder smells like when it hits hot metal. They don’t know the joy of making a circuit light up for the first time. They’ve been robbed of creation.

Meanwhile, the governments and school boards sell it all as “modern education.” But it’s not education — it’s domestication. A cattle society. Keep the masses tame, distracted, addicted to social media and trinkets, never dangerous enough to actually invent or challenge. Everyone’s supposed to be a consumer, endlessly grazing on the latest app, the newest phone, the flash-in-the-pan hyped product.

And here’s the kicker: the real knowledge never disappeared. You can still buy kits, parts, boards, tools. You can order components online from China for pennies. There are people on YouTube right now designing computers, building radios, 3D-printing cases, soldering boards, making things from scratch like real R&D engineers. But they’re a minority — a rare priesthood of builders in a sea of idiot consumers. Why? Because the system never gave most people access. Kids like me wanted to learn, asked to learn, begged to learn — and were denied. “Computers are only for the special ones,” they said. “Electronics isn’t for everyone.” Unless your parents paid the so-called “voluntary” fees, you were cut off. Exiled from the future. Ripped off.

And what has that left us with in 2025? The same society we had in 1995 — only worse. No flying cars. No Star Trek future. Just shinier toys and endless scrolling. They said we’d be explorers, innovators, engineers. Instead, we’re spectators with video feeds, dumbed-down idiocracy herds, shaking asses on TikTok while China manufactures the world’s electronics and Russia keeps its technical schools alive. The West doesn’t even know how to build the devices it worships. It can’t. It outsourced both the factories and the knowledge.

The result is fragility. Dependency. If the plug gets pulled tomorrow, if supply chains collapse, the West has no idea how to rebuild. The average citizen couldn’t fix a circuit, let alone design one. Entire countries of helpless cows, grazing and mooing while the slaughterhouse looms.

This isn’t progress. It’s regression disguised as comfort. It’s the death of competence. It’s the hollowing out of civilization into a consumer theme park. Idiocracy wasn’t just a movie — it’s a documentary of where we are. And unless something changes, unless technical literacy is ripped back out of the hands of the gatekeepers and given to every child, the West will stay exactly where it is: fattened, dumb, and waiting for someone else to build its future.