This world is turning out less like the movie Idiocracy and more like the series Continuum.
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I'm aware. Feel free to read my entire comment.
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It's all Patrick Duffy's dream, or that Canadian kid in a coma, or maybe the windfish
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Kazinsky probably "killed himself" because he took a look at the world of 2023 and realized that no one listened to a single word he said.
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It's Tommy Westphall's world. We're just living in it.
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"Killed himself" by Mark Zuck, that's it!
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Yeah, and I hate to say it but in some cases you need violence to make any change. You can protest the companies all you want 24/7 but they'll just ignore you and keep doing what that want. The BLM protests resorted to this because "no one was listening to us and we keep dying". It's not the best solution but what else is there.
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I realize I'll get downvoted to hell for saying it, but IMO anyone who says that non-violence works every time is naive.
The French didn't gain anything until the guillotines started rolling. America didn't get their freedom until they started fighting back. British/Portuguese/French Colonialism in Africa didn't come to an end until the locals started rioting and in some cases flat out starting revolutions.
Anyone who says violence never solved anything hasn't been paying attention to ANYTHING in history EVER.
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Are you sure about that? Look who just got elected president of the US again.
You also have that stupid movement where liberal women are withholding sex as a protest. Sounds an awful lot like the beginning of Idiocracy to me.
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The eugenics component of the movie
Don't do drugs, it's bad for you. You remembered the wrong movie.
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There is though, there's a whole scene about poor=dumb and horny vs rich=smart and chaste. It's very easy to forget since it doesn't solidly tie in as much as the producers may have hoped
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Nah people like to rewrite history in a better image to feel better. The down votes already prove that. Violence should not be the first option but when exhausted of all other options and people are still literally dying it shouldn't be overlooked. CEOs will just laugh from their ivory towers at "all the peasants whining" and then go right back to killing more people.
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the next world war might claim a billion or more
That’s still just 1 out of 8. You’d barely notice.
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Brawndo, its what plants crave
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When did I say that only certain types of people shouldn't be allowed to reproduce?
I'm antinatalist, I don't think anyone should be allowed to being life into the world, which is filled with so much suffering, without the consent of the child.
Regardless, I was just disputing the claim that intelligence is in no way a heritable trait.
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No, the scene is about how the wealthy people wait for the best financial opportunity to afford their kid the best while the dumb people just have kids. The wealthy folks wait too long and have no kids.
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Anyone who thinks violence never changes anything has never opened a history text.
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It might be worth pointing out there are two sci-fi shows called "Dark Matter".
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4159076/ <-- This is the crazy fun space sci-fi show from 2015 that ended abruptly. This is the one I think you referenced.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19231492/ <-- This is the more somber sci-fi show from 2024 with the focus on dimensional travel. It is good, but I prefer the other.
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Your point, like many similar, misses the fact that idiocracy is MANY cycles in before they attempt to right the ship. There is at least an entire population of adults in there that seemed to have been born into the already broken world and developed wholly inside of it (and probably several generations). Not a lot of "Back in my day" in that world, because back in "that day" everyone was already a fucking moron.
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A lot of people conflate "knowledge" and "intelligence." Not the guy you replied to, they seem like a troll; but still, a lot of people.
Our ancestors had intelligence in spades. They figured out an insane amount of stuff just to survive; and it's not too far back in the grand scheme of things that they had to remember it all because they had no way to record it. The first caveman to make a handaxe had absolutely no idea what he was doing, but they figured it out. Wheels, bows, fire, the entire concept of agriculture... They figured out how all of that worked from scratch, with no reference material.
Modern humanity builds on that with knowledge. We've figured out how to record everything our ancestors discovered, and all of our new discoveries as well. We've put men on the moon, figured out how to make electricity from things like waterfalls and glowing rocks, and almost everyone has a tiny computer in their pocket.
None of that means that we're more intelligent now, though. All of that knowledge is iterative, so we've just been applying that same intelligence at a continually higher level throughout history.
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You're defending eugenics.