When you realize that Idiocracy is way better than where we're headed.
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They had to make the future people somewhat likable and sympathetic for a comedy movie. In reality, they'd be much more short tempered, racist, sexist, and violent.
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The pseudoscience behind it is straight from eugenics.
Despite that, its depiction of an ignorant society unaware of the technology supporting it was incredibly prophetic. If we ignore the "dumb people reproducing" bit, we can see it as a warning about how an uneducated society is detrimental for everyone.
I mean, we have flat earthers, for fuck's sake.
The problem is it's also a society without users and abusers. It's just a story about dumb people.
But the reason society seems to be trending stupider isn't because we're naturally focusing on shunning intelligence... it's because the rich and powerful are using their influence to put that idea in our heads. They want a stupider, and more malleable, society to manipulate.
That is the biggest problem we're facing right now. And ignoring the root cause basically means you're pushing a boulder up a steep hill, just for it to roll back down again.
We always had village idiots. Social Media just allowed them to find each other.
I'm not worried with flat earthers as much as theocrats amd other form of politically motivated extremism.
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That is the thing.
Idiocracy is a universe where intelligence is shunned. Being smart is a bad thing and reading books can get you beaten up. It is basically anti-intelligence.
While in our universe we have more of a pseudoscience problem. People who want to be smart, it is revered. But they fall for pseudo-intelligence. (Flatearthers, anti-vaxxers, climate deniers, ...)
If there was a movies circlejerk community on lemmy, this would be the top of all time post.
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We are now in the Handmaid's Tale
I don't like idiocracy bc irl the opposition is not actually stupid, they know exactly what they are doing. Also the eugenics is not fantastic
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It's comforting to know that while things may seem to be going in one direction, the opposite is actually happening. IQ isn't a static measurement, nor is it all that useful.. However it has been trending upwards ever since it's inception. Meaning that what 100 IQ currently is used to be closer to 130 back in our grandparents time.
That was true for the past, but IIRC recent studies have shown that this trend reverses for the first time
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wait, what country is on six year election cycles and has elections this year
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Idioctacy isn't about how stupid society has become, it's literally justifying Eugenics.
That's kind of a bold claim, as it always seemed to me that the 'smart people aren't having kids while dumb people are' wasn't about eugenics, but about cultural norms- dumb parents aren't going to encourage critical thinking, going to school, valuing intelligence, or any number of things to their kids. Moreover, dumb parents aren't going to want, or be able, to provide their kids the sort of resources needed for that kid to shine even if the kid DID want to go against the local grain and focus on those things, because dumber people generally tend to make less money.
More to the point, lack of intelligence is, generally, more based in environment and means, not personal ability- people usually aren't dumb because they're inherently dumb, it's because they lack teaching and resources, or are in an environment that discourages intelligence. The most common indicator of this is the local economy- a brutal catch 22 of being poor meaning there's worse resources for people, who cannot get ahead and thus end up poor themselves.
There's an old joke in the US that you can easily divide people up by their earning potential with a single simple number- their zip code. The same thing applies to test scores.
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Source?
It's a 90 minute film. You are taking issue with the first 2 minutes.
Also, eugenics involves unnatural control and sterilisation. It sounds like you have a problem with intelligence being inherited.
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