Yeah it’s in the opening thesis of the movie:
uneducated people kept having more kids and learned people kept putting it off
Not saying I agree with the premise at all, and I’m putting it much more lightly than the movie does.
Okay, I agree with you and I’m not sure why you’re saying I’m wrong. That movie definitely has a eugenics bent and that’s why I’m saying people shouldn’t put too much stock in it.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
FabioTheNewOrder@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because the movie dies not hint at eugenetics as solution to the crisis, it’s a hymn against stupidity and a cry to better educate the masses. First of all about sexual education and the danger of unprotected sex and secondly about politics and civic duties. I mean, I really don’t see how one could interpret the message of the movie as “do eugenetics”, that’s all.
Karfkengrumble@lemmings.world 1 year ago
I think the people seeing it as pro-eugenics are latching onto the “stupid person makes stupid babies” part as being the reason for the Idiocracy. Basically they think the movie is arguing “IQ is 100% nature and 0% nurture”
But IMO the intro pretty clearly showed that the main factor in the degradation of society is that the low IQ family were raising too many kids in a chaotic environment with no actual parenting.