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That was both a funny and deeply depresing movie. Would recommend. Hope that it's not gonna transform into a prophecy/documentary at some point.
by BossingAround 3y ago
That was both a funny and deeply depresing movie. Would recommend. Hope that it's not gonna transform into a prophecy/documentary at some point.
- hef19898 3y agoI guess it will, as does Idiocracy I am afraid. Or not. But yes, don't look up was funny!
- developer93 3y agoIdiocracy is based on a false premise
- ctoth 3y agoI'd love to learn more about this. I thought it was based on The Marching Morons by Kornbluth and the subsequent discussion between Niven and Asimov I read many years ago. It seemed true then. It seems more true today.
- developer93 3y agoOK, fiction writers aren't (often) scientists so while such discussions might be interesting you should not take them as authoritative & evidence based. It's a slightly eugenic fallacy which assumes that a) poor people are poor because they're stupid and feckless, and no other reason like the inbuilt injustices on our society (it's considerably easier to stay rich than to get rich) and b) education, upbringing and innate intelligence are the same thing. Life situation isn't genetics.
- marcosdumay 3y agoIdiocracy is an absurd comedy that triggered some people's prejudices and made them think they were right. (It doesn't look like the author shares those prejudices. That's a nightmare scenario, you make some dadist art and an entire population of bigoted people make you their leader.) Don't look up is a comedy about global warming.
- tongueinkek 3y agoThis has to be sarcasm, right? It is a direct allegory for the climate crisis that is currently, actively unfolding.
- hutzlibu 3y agoThat is of course true, but the climate crisis is way more abstract than a concrete hit that is coming at a fixed date. So yes, more and more people acknowledge now, that the weather seems to get more extreme, but that's about it. Boiling frog effect.