This world is turning out less like the movie Idiocracy and more like the series Continuum.

[adderbox76@lemmy.ca]

Canadian Sci-Fi starring Roger Cross

That made me laugh out loud because it's so damn true.

[floodedwomb@lemmy.world]

It's also not how genetics works. Smart people don't only have smart children and dumb people don't only have dumb children.

[lesrid@lemm.ee]

The eugenics component of the movie is gross, no wonder I fail to remember it.

[jackgreenearth@lemm.ee]

People evolved from ape-like predecessors. Would you say the children of a predecessor and the children of a modern human are equally likely to be of a similar intelligence?

[blackpenguins@lemmy.world]

Actually I'm using my dad's account. But yeah I still pay for Netflix and Hulu. Anything that isn't available anywhere though I'll go to the seas.

[ech@lemm.ee]

Actually, it's more like Revelations from the Bible. Trump is the devil, corporations are the horsemen, chatgpt is the mark of the beast and israel is in conflict. It's all right there!

Now if that made you scoff or roll your eyes, realize that conflating our real, actual lives with fiction is just as useful. It's entertainment, not prophecy. Can we just fucking stop already?

[dagwood222@lemm.ee]

The apes figured out how to make tools out of stone. They knew how to make fire and knew which plants they could and couldn't eat. People today aren't smarter than their ancestors because they have access to sophisticated tech.

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Also on ‍️Bay

[blackpenguins@lemmy.world]

By episode 6 I was on their side lol. When they steered away from violence and won over the public I was like ok I can get on board with this.

[ech@lemm.ee]

Nah. The existence of evolution in no way validates your pseudo-science racism. Billions of years of natural selection doesn't equate to your garbage notion that "certain people" shouldn't procreate.

[angrystego@lemmy.world]

Wow, you're right, it IS like Revelations!

[possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip]

Honestly the world is much better than it was.

For instance, around 140 million people were killed in WWI and WWII.

[rivalarrival@lemmy.today]

IIRC, the movie had no eugenics component. You appear to be conflating the concept of "darwinism" (natural selection) with the concept of "eugenics".

The concept of "reproductive rights" allows for individuals to make their own selections for themselves and their offspirng; those choices do not constitute "eugenics" until they are imposed in another.

If the state is not applying selective pressure, it is not eugenics.

[chuckleslord@lemmy.world]

Wasn't The Book of Revelation just an acid, fever dream fanfic about Nero coming back from the dead? Kinda not relevant.

[yarharsuperstar@lemmy.world]

Ooh the guy from Dark Matter is in this? I'll have to watch it now.

[adderbox76@lemmy.ca]

In some ways I think they always were about non-violence. Kagami clearly only resorted to the bombing when they had nothing else to lose. The female leader (Sonia I think her name was) was on that side of things as well, while Roger Cross' character (I think his name was Travis?) was the militaristic one.

[ptz@dubvee.org]

Yeah, but he's mean in Continuum lol

[adderbox76@lemmy.ca]

That's correct. It IS better than it was. And it's important to KEEP it that way. But in case you haven't noticed, world history is following pretty much the exact same path beat-for-beat that it did in the lead up to that war that cost 140 million lives.

It's not whether we are better off than we were in the past. It's a question of whether or not we're going to stay that way. Because the next world war might claim a billion or more. (exaggerating for effect of course)

[ech@lemm.ee]

I'm aware. Feel free to read my entire comment.

[whotookkarl@lemmy.world]

It's all Patrick Duffy's dream, or that Canadian kid in a coma, or maybe the windfish