• yesman@lemmy.world
      122·
      5 hours ago

      Idiocracy is a funny movie that I enjoy. However I’m disturbed by the number of people who say it’s a documentary, or a warning. That’s because the central premise of the movie (that humans breed wrong and if nothing is done, we’ll devolve and society will collapse) also happens to be the central premise of Eugenics.

      • GlenRambo@jlai.luEnglish
        2·
        36 minutes ago

        My spouses family is dysfunctional with many many kids and more on the way.

        She’s the only functional one and its unlikely we will have kods of our own.

        The premise tracks.

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
        111·
        5 hours ago

        Hey, at least in Idiocracy, once they determined the guy to be smarter than everyone else, at least they put him in charge of things…

      • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
        6·
        4 hours ago

        Honestly, I’m kind of put off watching the movie due to those weird eugenicsy undertones… Feels like one of those “i am very smart” Reddit people looking down on the “lesser masses” and saying they shouldn’t reproduce.

        • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          I don’t think the movie in any way calls for eugenics.

          If anything it called out how toxic ignorance and stupidity can be in the presence of someone who just wants to do the right thing. It shows how corporate greed and capitalism encourages stupidity to further it’s goals of creating basic labor for the corporate machines owned by billionaires to exploit.

          But hey, that’s just like, my opinion man.