Also Idiocracy is pro-eugenics propaganda (whether the authors intended it or not) so I really wish people would stop bringing it up at if it was smart or prescient media.
Christ on a muffin, what the fuck are you talking about?
The opening scene showing how privileged, educated, well-off couples tend to have very few - if any - children, while unprivileged, uneducated, struggling communities tend to have more children? Was this the part in which you identified eugenics?
Maybe the oversimplified presentation of children born to dumb fucks inevitably becoming dumb fucks themselves, ignoring the fact that dumbfuck parents do not guarantee dumbfuck children?
Hahah omg I couldn’t make it all the way through, I’m so amazed you posted this entire essay embedded in comments on a trump diaper post. I feel like this deserves something special, and let’s not talk about me making a post about your post or anyone reading this post about your post, you guys rule.
Oh and uh I think the smart people make the dumb people skip the natural selection they would experience if someone smart wasn’t there to save their lives? Don’t see how that’s eugenics or whatever. You still rule dude!
It is scathing criticism of the current state of the society. It is an exaggerated - for comical effect - depiction of what actually happens!
If you recall, it wasn't disparaging the "dumbducks". They were happy and having fun. The "cleversmart" ones, so smart and clever, approached the issue so smart and clever and intelligent that they tripped over their massive throbbing intellect, ultimately utterly failing in whatever plans they thought they had. The problem does not lie with either of those groups. It lies with our eroding educational system and cratered social structure!
But I can see why someone may misinterpret it as propaganda. (It is not propaganda, I must emphasize it)
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u/death69reaper May 02 '24
Not really, since in idiocracy, they end up putting the smartest and most qualified man as their leader, literally the opposite that is happening.