Nah, the line of thinking is unnecessary under capitalism. Capitalism will ensure the greediest piece of shit wins. Modern healthcare means idiots survive. It’s a known near constant that intelligent people have fewer kids.
It’s all but guaranteed when the norm is to not pay attention to quality. and if the constant push for shitty low quality “AI” slop in everything as of recent is any indication… yeaaaa we’re fucked.
The premise is bad, but the portrayal of the nonsensical aspects of modern society are spot on and in many ways prescient. It just missed that what would make us dimmer would not be mating, but technology.
In some ways, sure. But it just depicts it as “People dumb, LOL” and not how that dumbness arises or persists. It doesn’t happen in a vacuum, it happens because specific groups of people (mostly conservative politicians and their leash-holders) discourage education and encourage reactionism. None of that is shown in Idiocracy. Without them, at least some critical thinking would persist or arise.
People praising that movie as prescient want to believe that all their problems are just that everyone but them are idiots, because it absolves them of trying to help fix things. It means the problem is inevitable and unfixable. It also means those people are help creating the future they are critiquing as they abandon critical thinking for reactionism.
But it just depicts it as “People dumb, LOL” and not how that dumbness arises or persists.
Well, it’s a comedy, not an education piece. It was never intended to have any sort of accuracy. People just relate to it because it seems like far too many people in charge make awful decisions because of ignorance, willful or otherwise.
The problem being that everyone uses it to say “dumb people reproduce more and that’s the problem with humanity”, which I’m sure the nazis would like but that I struggle seeing as an acceptable opinion.
And let them win?
This is the line of thinking that leads to Idiocracy
Nah, the line of thinking is unnecessary under capitalism. Capitalism will ensure the greediest piece of shit wins. Modern healthcare means idiots survive. It’s a known near constant that intelligent people have fewer kids.
It’s all but guaranteed when the norm is to not pay attention to quality. and if the constant push for shitty low quality “AI” slop in everything as of recent is any indication… yeaaaa we’re fucked.
Then give up and don’t have kids and ensure that their similarly thinking offspring have a better chance of continuing the cycle.
There is no better chance than 100%.
Why is everyone so fond of this movie that is based on eugenics undertones?
The premise is bad, but the portrayal of the nonsensical aspects of modern society are spot on and in many ways prescient. It just missed that what would make us dimmer would not be mating, but technology.
In some ways, sure. But it just depicts it as “People dumb, LOL” and not how that dumbness arises or persists. It doesn’t happen in a vacuum, it happens because specific groups of people (mostly conservative politicians and their leash-holders) discourage education and encourage reactionism. None of that is shown in Idiocracy. Without them, at least some critical thinking would persist or arise.
People praising that movie as prescient want to believe that all their problems are just that everyone but them are idiots, because it absolves them of trying to help fix things. It means the problem is inevitable and unfixable. It also means those people are help creating the future they are critiquing as they abandon critical thinking for reactionism.
Jesus fucking Christ you people look way too far into things sometimes. Get a grip.
Well, it’s a comedy, not an education piece. It was never intended to have any sort of accuracy. People just relate to it because it seems like far too many people in charge make awful decisions because of ignorance, willful or otherwise.
The problem being that everyone uses it to say “dumb people reproduce more and that’s the problem with humanity”, which I’m sure the nazis would like but that I struggle seeing as an acceptable opinion.
I wouldn’t mind having 50 kids, I’m just too broke to even afford to date :D