Everyone knows the surface level shit about Idiocracy, like "this is what happens if only stupid people reproduce in large numbers", but really that's a red herring. The real reason why everyone is so stupid in the future, is because their lives have mostly been automated. It is the only reason they are able to survive at all.
At one point in the movie, when they switch out Brawndo for water and the stock of Brawndo hits zero a computer automatically lays off all the employees, even the ceo. Similar is shown throughout the entire movie.
The real danger of an idiocracy, is ever increasing technology. It hasn't mad humanity smarter. It has dumbed humanity down, and will continue to do so as long as it is blindly embraced. Once the tipping point is reached you aren't gong to be getting all the science fiction discoveries you have dreamed of. You will get a lazy and stupid human race.
How does ubiquitous automation remove the dysgenics aspect instead of being the driving force of it?
Aaron Gomez
I never said that it removes it. I said this major problem goes unspoken about, and only the dysgenics is talked about. In reality the message of the movie is not to procreate, which is a depopulation agenda. They don't speak badly about the technology because that is something they plan to use.
You can obviously see the technology wasn't made by idiots. So how was such sophisticated technology made to cater to idiots, if everyone smart had already been bred out? The answer is the the technology was made before the majority was stupid, and the result of that technology is the major driving force behind the stupidity. If not for it, the stupid people would have died off. Technology beyond a certain point inhibits natural human selection.
Cameron Long
Just create technology that'll make us smarter geez
Gabriel Brown
MAKE EUGENICS GREAT AGAIN We need a Kwisatz Haderach now more than ever.
Charles Butler
totally agree this is going to be a major problem in the following decades
Elijah Jackson
yeah let's destroy all technology and go back to being hunter-gatherers who live in grass huts
Grayson Gomez
Agreed.
Colton Baker
What was the name of this kind of fallacy again?
Luis Rogers
Idiocracy's biggest plothole is that somehow everything worked even though it was about idiots living in a futuristic setting.
Aaron Wood
It was all automated, didn't you read the OP?
Eli Lopez
it's not a fallacy. it's just taking an argument to its logical conclusion to show that it's a bad argument
Joshua Baker
"Reductio ad infinitum" is a common fallacy.
Sebastian Gomez
Nobody's saying we should take it to it's extreme (not logical, it's not logical to take it to that extreme) conclusion. Taking things to the extreme conclusion is the greatest problem with everything nowadays, really. Even in movies. Also, I'm pretty sure people here like future shit but aren't okay with extreme automatization, which is all this thread is about. Technological progress can take many forms, you know?
Isaac Reed
there's not many technological developments that don't cost someone a job
Jonathan Moore
Yeah, no. It was a glaring and very distracting plothole.
Aiden Brooks
in such an automated world machines could very well maintain themselves we're already getting there
Charles King
shut up cuck
Hudson Perez
you say it like it's a bad thing
Jackson Taylor
Except literally nobody was saying we should stop advancing and destroy all technology, you complete and utter idiot. Thinking about the potential consequences of doing something doesn't mean you want the exact opposite.
Sebastian Hernandez
There always were dumb people, and will continue to be. Not focusing on technology will help no one. If dumb fucks won't have technology to play around with they will find something else to waste their life on. The smart people that will make new technology will always exist too.
life goes on
James Turner
The biggest problem with Idiocracy was that it implied it was because of stupid whites the population grew dumb, not the enormous amounts of retarded-IQ shitskins and niggers out there that have been multiplying at unsustainable rates while leeching aid off of first-world countries.
Tyler Torres
They cast a whole lot Hispanics in minor roles – that might not have been an accident
Landon Jenkins
Yeah, no, but they'd end up dying off. That's how intelligence first came to be, natural selection. In nature the stupid fucks would've just died.
Cooper Brown
Except it is because of stupid whites europe and america is such a shithole. Guess who's sympathizing with and allowing all the mudslimes and spics to invade? Bleeding heart white liberals See some SJW on the news or YT? Color of his or her skin is white always
Jaxon Wood
someone tell Drumpf that the movie wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual!
Aaron Stewart
#OWNED LMAO XDDD
Nathan Moore
heh, so mad
Adrian Cox
>>>/reddit/
Camden Miller
The intro is my favorite scene. The dude bro shit that follows gets old real quick
Benjamin Lopez
GLUMPF BTFO
Jackson Hughes
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Juan Ortiz
Yeah that's what I'm talking about. It might be amusing for 5 seconds but that's the entirety of the movie.
Isaiah Scott
In all fairness, Camacho's speech was entertaining.
Hunter Anderson
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Tyler Bailey
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Adam Nguyen
You missed Faith.
Christian Hernandez
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Logan Myers
That's the crux of the problem. Spics and niggers are breeding a scary amount cause they don't give a single fuck about the responsibilities or the care of raising a child. They just go on welfare or abandon their kids altogether who grow up to be the same kind of deadbeats.
Whites meanwhile are too scared to have more than one or two kids.
Gavin Stewart
This is where our society is heading if we allow videogames and fake news to exist
Christopher Hill
Then its over because neither of those things are going away.
Ethan Lopez
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Parker Johnson
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Lucas Rogers
White people should continue inventing technology that replaces their usefulness and allows the future slave class to survive without much intelligence.
Jackson Peterson
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Xavier Price
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Sebastian Collins
We just need to get rid of white men. White women are good fucktoys.
Blake James
You're fucking first.
Matthew Jackson
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Jayden Gray
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Justin Miller
Bump because this is a semi interesting topic compared to all the braindead cartoon topics
Brody Green
Oy vey, how dare you to talk something bad about a fellow Chaim from the glorious JIDF? One goy, one goyim, it's all about the same, you are all such pests that need to be put in your places!
Robert Smith
To me Mike Judge stuff tends to best when it's dry observational humor, not a cynical extended SNL skit
Brandon Turner
Well if you had have actually looked at the thread you'd have realized it's already derailed and turned to shit.
Alexander Russell
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Aaron Wright
Religious people are the most fecund so idiocracy should've been incredibly religious or filled with varying cults. There was a study in sweden of birthrates amongst different groups of women, athiests had birthrates of like 1.4 and most, if not all, religious women had a birthrates of 2 or more (even hippie buddhists).
Aside from a near extinction-level event, literally nothing can or will stop technological progress That would be like doing what the movie wants and trying to tell stupid people to stop fucking, it's just not going to happen
The future's not going to end up like that anyway, it'll be closer to something like the matrix
Kevin Baker
just stop
Carson Young
Most experts think we'll develop a sentient AI by 2030 Aside from the world being covered in weird eldritch machinery and miscellaneous shit like humans being used as batteries, that's the most outlandish concept in the matrix, and it's going to happen within our lifetimes
Noah James
I just want to attain immortality. If it's done through transferring my brain map into data to the "matrix" then so be it
Andrew James
Transhumanist shills go and stay go.
Aiden Cooper
/LEFTYCUCKS/ BTFO OF THIS PLANET
David Perez
sorry bub, (((Eliezer Yudkowsky))) is not most experts
Elijah Price
Strawman fallacy.
Brandon Turner
Nobody has to shill for transhumanism, it's going to happen anyway Both because it's easier and less liable to permanently fuck up something than genetic manipulation, and because it'll be the only way to keep up with our computer overlords
Literally who
Nicholas King
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Lincoln Clark
A quick blow through his wikipedia article mentions nothing about transhumanism, he's just some cuck from california that's involved in science and talks about your friendly neighborhood AI, which is a description that could easily apply to tons of other people Stop assuming everyone knows who you are, shlomo
Easton Watson
People seem to forget that Idiocracy was an implicit defense of eugenics
Christopher Green
hue the left one is the best and the right one is new, I like how the anarcho-prims are devolving even further
when are we finally going to get an ancap game and or movie
William Reyes
interestingly the unabomber said the same thing basically in his manifesto, theyre not wrong but it can probably be countered against quite effectively if it is actively combatted, my wager would be that certain shitbags that are big fans of brave new world will always be looking to promote mind melting aspects of technological advancements, they need to be removed