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 threadheavydustJan 17, 2025

The eugenics component of the movie

Don’t do drugs, it’s bad for you. You remembered the wrong movie.

Show threadLesridJan 17, 2025
There is though, there’s a whole scene about poor=dumb and horny vs rich=smart and chaste. It’s very easy to forget since it doesn’t solidly tie in as much as the producers may have hoped
Show threadMothmanDelorianJan 17, 2025
No, the scene is about how the wealthy people wait for the best financial opportunity to afford their kid the best while the dumb people just have kids.
Show threadEchJan 17, 2025
The movie is about how “dumb” people outbred “smart” people and it ruined the planet/humanity. Replace those traits with the races of your choice or any other genetic trait and tell me if you’re still OK with that narrative.
Show threadMothmanDelorianJan 17, 2025
Race isn’t the result of choices but being less educated certainly is to some degree a function of choice. Your suggestion of replacing a trait that involves choices with one that is not chosen at any level is a false equivalence.
Show threadEchJan 17, 2025
How exactly is it treated as a choice in the movie?
Show threadGeeDubHaydukeJan 18, 2025
The “smart” people keep waiting and waiting. It’s not being forced on them…
Show threadEchJan 18, 2025
Choice to have a baby ≠ choice to “be dumb”
Show threadGeeDubHayduke
Choice to not have baby = choice to let dumb people out-procreate smart people = more dumb people
Jan 18, 2025 at 1:02amWeb
Show threadEchJan 18, 2025
And, returning to the original question - How exactly is that treating individual intelligence as a choice and not a genetic trait?