Space Barbies & the Great Cosmo Clout Chase

Idiocracy Revisited

Let’s talk about what just happened when a group of celebrities — led by Katy Perry, Gail King, and Lauren Sánchez — took a quick 11-minute Blue Origin trip to “space,” and declared it not only a feminist milestone, but a scientific triumph.

Except... it wasn’t. It was a glorified influencer retreat strapped to a booster rocket.

For context: they spent four minutes in low earth orbit. They say they did “research.” Research that, supposedly, involved carrying plants into microgravity and then handing them off to university students on the ground — students who, let’s be honest, could have FedExed the payload there faster and cheaper.

Meanwhile, footage from inside the capsule shows them tossing around teddy bears and recording themselves for Instagram.
Paul Joseph Watson dubbed it a “hen party in orbit.”

Redacted called it “a PR disaster disguised as female empowerment.”

And it is so easy to laugh — because it’s absurd.
They’re claiming the mantle of astronauts while doing… absolutely nothing astronautic.

The FAA even had to clarify: no, these women aren’t astronauts — they didn’t contribute to public safety or spaceflight operations. They just unbuckled their seatbelts and floated around like kids at a zero-G birthday party. The only heavy lifting done was emotional — and even that was outsourced to post-flight interviews and some pre-packaged “divine feminine” affirmations.

One woman said she had a spiritual experience thinking about food insecurity.
Another compared their designer flight suits — tailored by Oscar de la Renta, naturally — to gym-wear for the cosmos.
Katy Perry used her moment in orbit to plug her new tour.

So yes, this is peak idiocracy.
But here’s the real point: this culture made this moment inevitable.

This is what happens when a society spends decades devaluing substance in favor of spectacle.

When it hands the megaphone to people who’ve confused attention for achievement.
When political, media, and academic institutions lie so often that reality itself feels up for debate — spawning conspiracies, disillusionment, and outright parody from every angle.

The reason people are rolling their eyes isn’t because these women are women.
It’s because the whole thing was performative.
It was a literal space ride dressed up as an interstellar TED Talk — with plush toys, pre-written press blurbs, and Instagram filters.

We’re witnessing the collision of two forces:

1. A public desperate for meaning, lied to one too many times,

2. And an elite class that’s still pretending to be inspiring while obviously chasing clout and cash.

The fallout is pure theatre. And sane people are noticing.

And just like in the movie Idiocracy, the lines between satire and news have completely blurred.
But nobody in this cast seems aware that they’ve become cartoon characters in someone else’s punchline.

Idiocracy was supposed to be a movie about what happens when society is overrun by hillbillies.

No one expected that it would be the political and media class who became the idiots. And yet here we are.

A parody of a parody.

You are here. And guess who Joe is?

That’s what I normally write about and you’re welcome to join me before the current thing has it’s way with all of us.

Or you could just wait for your turn to go to space.

If you’re interested in fighting Idiocracy here’s a good place to start.