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All idiocracy needed to do was drop the fucking eugenics crap. It would have been gold.
Wasn't one of the producers Israeli or something? Asking them to not believe in eugenics would be a tall order.
I've been meaning to rewatch the movie as my partner hasn't seen it, but yeah, that was the biggest issue I remember. Along with a bunch of the r-slur, but to me it makes perfect sense that they would be using it.
And to make matters worse is a much better (and more poignant) premise was right there and could be used. The ruling class creates a culture that rewards stupidity and actively kills the spark of curiosity or intellectualism in the public as “lame”.
So the people in the future aren’t ontologically that way, but victims of macro-level social engineering. Boom, being a chud is mocked as being foolish and conformist and you don’t end up carrying water for chuds by implying intelligence comes down to getting lucky in genetics.
Someone else pointed out the opening sequence and that gave me the thought that all you'd have to do is pull that out and now the movie is no longer eugenics but materialist.
If I'm reimagining it to that degree is it still the same movie? Valid question, but that's where I'm with you: it was gold except for the eugenics crap.
think of it as an unreliable narrator. after all, it's some american telling you all this happened cos stupid people had too many kids. and it makes total sense that the descendant of americans would believe some eugenicist nonsense reason for things going to shit.
Iaaways found that beginning as very classist