Basically the only way this film remained in popular culture is people bringing up "idiocracy wasn't supposed to be a documentary" and everyone laughing at people who thought it was realistic. If I try to go "back in time" to try to see what people used to say on the subject, the only criticism I find are comics like https://xkcd.com/603/ that nitpick some tiny detail that's hardly even mentioned or implied at best (also saying "worrying about the problem causes more harm than the problem", I wonder how he felt about covid years later) or making fun of the movie's depoction of future America, which is obviously exaggerated and stylised for comedic effect. I feel bad for being the only guy around who didn't get the memo on how the central premise actually got debunked. The central premise in my view being "as of right now, the smart, well organised people who have their shit together and can form healthy, happy relationships tend to have few or no kids, where as the abusive drug addicted idiots, often only kept alive by welfare, charity or crime, who bumble through life and never consider planning for the future are the group that tend to have the most kids (especially since you can count on there being kids out of wedlock). Like I said, this just seems like common sense to me, it matches what I see outside perfectly. Most of us could pay for an abortion if it came to that, the people that don't have a few hundred dollars to their name could be just jolly good poor people but most of them are likely just retards who spend money as it comes in, never even considering the idea of saving or planning ahead.
Didn't read your OP, only the subject.According to Mike Judge, he made a documentary but set it in the future.
>>16884623 A dull, poor couple that conceive at prime age, prefer animal based foods and avoid alcohol abuse, have significant chances of producing smart children.
>>16884623It's stupid because by the time the movie came out, ED and hairloss were already solved problems.
It's not supposed to be a documentary. So to make sparks fly out of the tv with reality then, it needs to have an edge with reality. But the manufacturing behind the machines needs calibration to form quantum. Right Mike?
>>16884667Gender conversion is not a solution, Anon.It's an axe wound. And it smells rotten.
>>16884674Well it is an accurate description of modern African politics.
>>16884623I've got a headcanon going on where some advanced AI keeps the society depicted in this movie together (basic amenities), but the retarded humans selectively override it (Nazi T-rex's in the museum and so forth) where they deem it funny/appropriateIt essentially is exactly where we are headed right now here in the west. Luckily, China exists though
>>16884623>Can someone explain why Idiocracy was "wrong"?from what I have seen in my life time? it's totally accurate.as for the rest of whatever you wrote... pic related.
>>16884623Didn't read most of your unorganized rambling but in general the movie should be watched as a stylized version of the future, not a strict prediction of how things will evolve. That television and electricity were still working despite society becoming a bunch of morons should have been evidence enough that the movie could not be taken literally even if the overarching theme of low intelligence being able to out reproduce high intelligence is at least somewhat sound in the current cultural context.
>>16886340yeah readings for fags lol
At the start the doomed smart people were jewish and the dumb people were white trash.Supposedly he had to do that to get itproduced or something.
>>16886345>>16886398why do you keep tryna read that post?
>>16886340>pic related.Its a video, not a pic.And its too long, so I didn't watch.
>>16886345nope I just am not going to buy into ops bullshit.>>16886478I'm not referring to the video, I am referring to the post. the movie was incredibly painful to watch because it matched so much that I was already seeing.
>>16886577>the movie was incredibly painful to watch because it matched so much that I was already seeing.Dont watch the Langoliers then
>>16884623The thesis is obviously valid but the people who tend to constantly invoke the movie quietly ignore its actual point because in the IRL version it's not white trailer trash having a dozen kids and flooding the planet with their shitty genes, it's third world immigrants. Instead it gets hypersimplified to "GOVERNMENT DUMB LOL" so people with no capacity to make arguments can make a pop culture reference to bitch about blumpf instead.
>>16886343Electricity was managed by am AI, as everything else and they had a leaking nuclear powet plant.
>>16884623>brusselite yankee screed film about how stupid americans are>among the chief signifiers of this stupidity is...a black presidentWhat did they mean by this?
>>16887301Terry Crews 2028
>>16884674You just know.
>>16884674Is that the guy from the british student sitcom "The Young Ones"?
>>16886595>Dont watch the Langoliers thento late. that movie was creepy for other reasons and the CG was complete garbage.Don't read the book Interlopers by Alan Dean Foster. I couldn't touch anything organic for days afterwards. creepiest novel I ever read. I will never read it again. I think I threw it away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kqLVeP7iHA
>>16884623>view being "as of right now, the smart, well organised people who have their shit together and can form healthy, happy relationships tend to have few or no kids, where as the abusive drug addicted idiots, often only kept alive by welfare, charity or crime, who bumble through life and never consider planning for the future are the group that tend to have the most kids (especially since you can count on there being kids out of wedlock).It is true.However you forgot leftism.Leftism says that anything that talks about genetics or eugenics is wrong. Therefore this is why they react this way to the movie.Of course the premise of dumbing down of is real however the far worse aspect is that genetic defects are pushed down the line because there is a treatment that costs $$$$. We are literally facing a genetic dead end. There is afar darker interpretation that the le smart people are not smart at all and are in fact the genetically defective retards.After all evolution rewards the organism who can reproduce the most.So being a low life who fucks around is actually evolutionary beneficial while siting down and sniffing popular science farts is a a defect. look into eugenics kid!
>>16888140>Of course the premise of dumbing down of is real however the far worse aspect is that genetic defects are pushed down the line because there is a treatment that costs $$$$. We are literally facing a genetic dead end.What level of selective pressure is expensive medical care having?It's an argument against universal healthcare.
>>16888148>It's an argument against universal healthcare.yes.You can read all the arguments of the 1800s eugenicists.>What level of selective pressure is expensive medical care having?Lets make this clear however Dysgenics goes back far very far as far as the bronze age. Lets say there is a genetic disorder lets say color blindness.Now society today is leftists and glorifies defects(leftism), like seeing nothing wrong with color blindness, not only this they give help to the ones who are color blind.This leftism of society results in more and more people being infected with color blindness since society is not filtering them out and is giving these fucks government help.Lets take another case, pick some genetic disorder that is bad however can be coped with medicine, so we get people who need medicine to live, and society is burdened with these defects. The only one benefiting here are the greedy medicine corporations since they will get more clients in the future.We are heading for a disaster since we are actively increasing defective DNA in future generations, the final conclusion of this can not be properly calculated however it will never be good. It is very simple to understand this.>universal healthcare.No contradictions between universal health care and eugenics educate yourself more.
>>16884623>the only criticism I find are comics like https://xkcd.com/603/ that nitpick some tiny detailand reaches the level of stupidity called "not even wrong".
>>16888174>>universal healthcare.>No contradictions between universal health care and eugenics educate yourself more.I don't get it, if you're saying that society supporting the defective is bad isn't that contradictory to universal healthcare?
>>16888181PS: the USA has no universal health care however it has leftist programs to prevent discrimination and gives money to people who are color blind etc. So this debunks you.>I don't get it,Educate yourself.>universal healthcare?How do I make this simple for you.Lets see>Ok you broke your leg when you where working as an amazon driver.>Let the government pay for that so you can return to workVS>Oh sorry you have a genetic disorder >No free money from the government or help in living.>Also the government requires you to inform everyone that you have this genetic defect (like a registered sex offender)>And you will be paying a tax for the rest of your life since you are genetically defective. Understand it now?You are literally on the level of >Cut off your nose to spite your faceof capitalist dick sucking.
>>16888176>"not even wrong".No that is bullshit.It is literally called not answering the question, surface level insults and then mockery of your opponent. Switch the subject to global warming and insert the same lines to see what happens.Or COVID.The guy saying this is a leftist. He has no opinions he only repeats what CNN/MSNBC told him to say. Like during COVID.
>>16888194>The guy saying this is a leftist.XKCD used to be good but that is a long, long time ago now.I always wondered what caused this insane level of stupidity in someone supposedly educated. Is there something weird in the water?
>>16888228His wife. If you track when xkcd was good and when it was bad, and when he got engaged, it's clear this was the cause.
>>16888228>Is there something weird in the water?Simple he was born into it.He was born into a society that has unquestionable assumptions like that non-whites are divine and never evil. And eugenic is dismissed as >AAA THAT IS RACIST!!So most people have this reaction to it.On another note it is interesting to read leftist try to review media it is like some broken AI chatbot. However what totally struck me is how leftists can not believe that people like in avatar the last air bender go ageist the things society told them.They literally can not process this concept or understand it. Since the leftists are basically sheep doing whatever CNN says.
