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JENNA: (pinches bridge of nose) It means—half your engineers think a paragraph is a type of graph.

A guard waddles in—wearing a motorcycle helmet and flip-flops. He tries to handcuff Jenna but handcuffs himself to the table. Jenna sighs. She leaves voluntarily.

CHAD: Alright, people. The quarterly numbers are in. Profits are down. Way down. And the board wants answers. (He looks at a pie chart labeled “REASONS WE SUCK.” It’s just a spinning wheel of screaming faces.) Idiocracia.avi

DR. FINCH: If you’re watching this… you’re the new smartest person alive. Congratulations. Try not to be alone. (He coughs.) And turn off the TV. It’s not babysitting you anymore. It’s burying you.

DR. FINCH (continued) : The last university closed in 2037. The last library was converted into a vape lounge in 2039. And the last person who could solve for x … (He points at his own chest.) …is recording this in a broom closet because no one remembers what a broom is for. JENNA: (pinches bridge of nose) It means—half your

CHAD: Literacy test? Is that an app? Can we monetize it?

Lightning cracks outside a penthouse window. Inside, a dozen men in thousand-dollar suits sit around a mahogany table. They don’t speak. They grunt. One of them, CEO CHAD (40, cleft chin, eyes glazed), holds a flip phone to his ear—wrong way around. Jenna sighs

Jenna watches, frozen. The screen cuts to montage: people applauding a vending machine that says “I LOVE YOU.” A courtroom where the judge uses a Magic 8-Ball. A news anchor crying because she can’t remember the word “yesterday.”