It makes me really sad to realize Mike Judge was only wrong about one thing in Idiocracy… that it would take 400 years for us to get there…because here we are, not even 20 years later.
It makes me really sad to realize Mike Judge was only wrong about one thing in Idiocracy… that it would take 400 years for us to get there…because here we are, not even 20 years later.
Idiocracy is a cute movie that I enjoy. I’m disturbed however by the popular notion that it’s prophetic or a documentary considering it’s central premise (that people are breeding wrong, and if unchecked society will collapse) is also the central premise of eugenics and a pillar of Nazi ideology.
People who think evolution works like it is portrayed in that movie have done infinitely more harm to society and scientific literacy than creationists.
It wasn’t about genetics, IQ is polygenic, and really not inheritable because of that.
It was about memetic inheritance, the people who would have raised curious and motivated kids, didn’t.
And the ones who didn’t give a shit but liked boning and hated condoms had a bunch of kids they just sat in front of a TV.
It’s been a while, but I don’t think they blamed genetics directly, they just didn’t spell it out in detail and people who didn’t know what they meant have apparently latched onto what you said?
At least one other person in this thread anyways, which is weird, I’ve never seen this claim before. Is it a tiktok thing?
I said this same thing almost verbatim a few days ago and got downvoted to hell lol. Idiocracy is fine. It’s okay. Some of the punchlines are pretty dated. But reddit incels love it because they think it validates their thoughts on eugenics.