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New Doomsday Clock just dropped (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I genuinely hope this isn't a hot take for anyone here: Social Darwinism is a dumb and destructive ideology and Idiocracy betrays some pretty awful beliefs.

Which is weird because KOTH and Silicon Valley aren't like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is where Idiocracy comes from, it was pretty heavily adapted, but might account for any difference in undertones.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The original has the guy they resurrected enact a genocide on the 99% of humanity who'd been tainted by dumb genes.

And I mean I'm glad Idiocracy didn't end that way, but it's weird that the original accepts the premise of nazi eugenics, but their only issue seems to be the way it was enacted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Didn't the studio take a pretty heavy hand to it? I feel like I've heard that Mike Judge isn't a huge fan of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Honestly I don't think it's hamful if we set boundaries properly.

You CAN assume:

  1. Dumb people can populate faster.
  2. Many generations of lacking natural predators causes societal decline.

You CANNOT assume:

  1. That one human can judge another on the basis of intellectual capacity.
  2. That the solution to the problem in any way involves untimely death in any amount.