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> I disagree. Idiocracy IMHO was designed to show one possible result - in satirical form - of the race to the bottom that we see every day. It's pretty distur
by PhasmaFelis 10y ago
> I disagree. Idiocracy IMHO was designed to show one possible result - in satirical form - of the race to the bottom that we see every day.
It's pretty disturbing that it explicitly endorses eugenics to do that, though.
Edit: If you disagree, please explain how "the world is going to hell because stupid people are breeding too much" isn't eugenics.
- udfalkso 10y agoPerhaps they would encourage smart people to go against their instincts and breed more.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoThat's eugenics, yes. And, just to be clear, it wouldn't actually work, because the whole decline-of-society thing that we're annoyed about is cultural, not genetic, and doesn't work the way you think it does. https://xkcd.com/603/ https://xkcd.com/603/
- CamperBob2 10y agoThat's not the definition of eugenics. Eugenics implies taking deliberate action to influence the gene pool in a direction that you believe/hope will be beneficial.
- psyc 10y agoBecause eugenics means doing something about it, usually with state power. Also, eugenics is the negation of the movie's premise, not the movie's premise.