ramble81Jan 17, 2025

This world is turning out less like the movie Idiocracy and more like the series Continuum.

https://lemm.ee/post/52847079

This world is turning out less like the movie Idiocracy and more like the series Continuum. - lemm.ee

In the series, corporations get a bailout when things get bad, collude to make it worse with profits over people and then basically buy off world governments in a reverse bail out to take control of the system. With a “Corporate Congress” and all people having a “life debt”. Oh, and the time travel aspect of it is pretty cool too.

Show threadkinsnikJan 17, 2025
Idiocracy was too optimistic. it supposes that when people are having problems they will realize, realize they can’t fix it, and try to find someone who knows more than them to fix them
Show threadFloodedwombJan 17, 2025
It’s also not how genetics works. Smart people don’t only have smart children and dumb people don’t only have dumb children.
Show threadLesridJan 17, 2025
The eugenics component of the movie is gross, no wonder I fail to remember it.
Show threadRivalarrivalJan 17, 2025

IIRC, the movie had no eugenics component. You appear to be conflating the concept of “darwinism” (natural selection) with the concept of “eugenics”.

The concept of “reproductive rights” allows for individuals to make their own selections for themselves and their offspirng; those choices do not constitute “eugenics” until they are imposed in another.

If the state is not applying selective pressure, it is not eugenics.

Show threadLesridJan 17, 2025
The apocalyptic scenario depicted in the movie is suggested to be brought about by failing to encourage the correct couples to reproduce. Implying that certain people for certain reasons are unworthy because their progeny are not suitable stewards of the planet.
Show threadRivalarrival

I’m going to have to go watch the movie again, but I don’t recall any message that the state created (or failed to stop) the “idiotization” of the populace.

The overarching message seemed to blame rampant consumerism, not evolutionary pressure.

Jan 17, 2025 at 10:52pmWeb