Idiocracy usually gets criticized for it’s embrace of eugenics. But today I’m going to point out that the future envisioned by the movie is 100% right wing. Not since Red Dawn has a move more closely aligned with reactionary politics.
What’s the conflict of the movie? Stupidity. That’s the cause of all the problems. Not institutions, not systems. Even corporate greed and mismanagement are down to dumb executives. Because if smart and qualified people were in charge, there would be no problems with corporations. Government? Same story, we just need an average white guy with dictatorial power to come in rescue the DEI hires.
Because its premise is that stupid parents exclusively get stupid children, and stupid parents gets more children than intelligent parents. That is how the world ends up as it is in the movie.
But that is of course not how intelligence works. Stupid parents can get intelligent children, otherwise intelligent people would never have existed in the first place.
Of course that doesn’t make the movie embrace eugenics. It is just an unimportantfictional premise meant to explain why the world is at it is in the movie.
Idiocracy usually gets criticized for it’s embrace of eugenics. But today I’m going to point out that the future envisioned by the movie is 100% right wing. Not since Red Dawn has a move more closely aligned with reactionary politics.
What’s the conflict of the movie? Stupidity. That’s the cause of all the problems. Not institutions, not systems. Even corporate greed and mismanagement are down to dumb executives. Because if smart and qualified people were in charge, there would be no problems with corporations. Government? Same story, we just need an average white guy with dictatorial power to come in rescue the DEI hires.
I genuinely don’t know where this comes from? Did I miss something in the movie?
Because its premise is that stupid parents exclusively get stupid children, and stupid parents gets more children than intelligent parents. That is how the world ends up as it is in the movie.
But that is of course not how intelligence works. Stupid parents can get intelligent children, otherwise intelligent people would never have existed in the first place.
Of course that doesn’t make the movie embrace eugenics. It is just an unimportantfictional premise meant to explain why the world is at it is in the movie.
Oh hmm. Does it mention genetics? It could be more of a cultural thing.