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>So far, Idiocracy remains a cynical comedy and not a documentary. Many of us hold the opposite opinion.
by StanislavPetrov 5y ago
>So far, Idiocracy remains a cynical comedy and not a documentary.
Many of us hold the opposite opinion.
- zdragnar 5y agoIdiocracy was fine for entertainment, but if you are looking for a moral, it is pure elitist garbage. The basic premise that intelligence is purely driven by genes and that only dumb people will be left is practically hateful. Given the current demographics related to birth rates, calling idiocracy a documentary is blatantly racist and classist.
- imwillofficial 5y agoLiterally what the fuck are you talking about. The people breeding a lot in the movie were white. Your logic leaves much to be desired.
- zdragnar 5y agoThe only group in the US with a lower birthrate than white people are asians, as a group, though with a lot of variance by subgroup. Worldwide, white people are at the bottom, excepting China due to the one child policy. Even in China, minority groups in rural locations were allowed more than one.
- imwillofficial 5y agoThe part of the movie people called prophetic is not the ethnic groups of the highest breeding populations in the movie. It is the steady decline of IQ, moral decay, and increasing shallowness of experience and atomization of society. All of which is clearly more severe than when the movie was released. None of which makes any implicit commentary on race, no matter what mechanism actually brought about above stated societal decline.
- zdragnar 5y agoThere are dozens of better choices to use for the sake of comparison if you want to say that you find the majority of people to be far beneath your brilliance and virtue. The decay of civilization in idiocracy was directly and exclusively due to two things: - intelligence is genetic - smart people bred themselves out of the gene pool I have literally heard people be chastised when they tell others they chose not to have kids, because have you seen idiocracy? The basic premise of the movie is so fundamentally flawed it is beyond offensive.
- imwillofficial 5y agoIQ is largely genetic. Studies have shown this for decades. If you find our current understanding of reality offensive, that sounds like wonderful motivation to do a study of your own. It must be sad to have so little sense of humor you get offended at the movie that features president commacho
- imwillofficial 5y agoSo if the movie had used hill-billy black people for their fast breeders in the movie, would you have been cool with that?
- StanislavPetrov 5y ago>Given the current demographics related to birth rates, calling idiocracy a documentary is blatantly racist and classist. Ironically, low intelligence people calling reality racist just serves to prove my point.