It is all about 'IQ'

Chennai Express is chugging down the tracks and has no plans of putting the brakes. During its journey, it has silently run over ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbai.’ SRK has proved that he is the reel and the real box office king.
The success of Chennai Express raises a serious concern—over our intellect as a nation. If you sit back for a moment and analyze, in no time you will decipher the crux of my debate. Let me help you with the same. Wasn’t Chennai Express an outright insult to your sensibilities? I am yet to find a soul who has something positive to say about the film. Yet it crossed the 100 crore mark in 3 days.  How?
Remember the song “Kolaveri?”  Complete trash; yet it was our second national anthem. The umpteen movies of RajniKant, the success of sub 100/- novels,  shows like ‘Rakhi Ka Swyamvar’ and if that was not enough swyamvars of politician’s junkie son and some non entity TV actress …the list continues.
A common thread runs across all of these. All of them were huge hits!I mean there are millions of people who actually hear, read and watch these creations, which should have never happened in a society which had even a decent level of IQ.
Please don’t get me wrong. The effort is to rationalize and not to insult. I seriously feel that maybe it is this lack of intelligence, which makes us a slave of ‘follower’ mentality.
Chennai Express is good because the TV says it, Congress party is good because my father says it, Modi is a racist because the newspaper proclaims the same, Manmohan Sing is a good PM because…oops I got carried away. There wont be a single soul in defense of our PM. Seriously, as a nation we are lead by marketing, PR and media blitz. We are led by general perception, as there isn’t enough IQ to gather, process, analyze and form an opinion of our own.
Anna is a good man and we believed it. Arvind Kejriwal is the future of a new India and we believed it too. Anna is not such a good man.  Even this was fine by us. Arvind Kejriwal has vested interests and we were fine by it too. Congress should go, Modi should be the next PM… all our perceptions are so perceptual.
Absurd it might sound but it takes some IQ to build a man, company, society and a nation. After all would a nation with an average IQ ever dedicate a film to an athlete whose claim to fame was a missed bronze at the Rome Olympics? If America or China started making films on athletes who missed their Olympics bronze, God be with us. Even sporting legends like Jesse Owens, Johnny Weissmuller, Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis do not have a feature film dedicated to them. Do you think Americans would spend to watch a film made on the life of a loser? The answer is well known.
Imagine us, as a nation with IQ. In no time, the lines of caste, creed would ebb. We would start casting our votes basis the profile of candidates rather than caste. Political parties would start giving tickets to deserving candidates rather than to rapists and goons or to people with money power. Parliament would be a true representation of our people. We would not be ruled by the MPs but served. No one would be a minority and no party would play minority-appeasing politics. Better governance instead of atrocious rule. 
The reason our government pays no attention to roads, sanitation, education, health, corruption, and mismanagement; even to Pakistan, because it knows that that we don’t have an IQ. They keep us gainfully employed by playing out the circus showcasing Kashmir, Dawood, Ram Mandir, Modi and engaging party jokers for occasional breaks.
Do you actually think we can’t nab Dawood or beat the shit out of Pak? As a nation can’t we nail the culprits of commonwealth games, the Coalgate, the Armsgate? If we want, can’t we ask questions, raise our voice? We can! But it would need IQ.
So till the time we get some, we will have to live with bad governance, bad roads, and last but not the least, bad movies.