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We need a followup to Idiocracy (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Turns out, it was just the USA. Almost everyone else is communist and in space with satellites pointed at the US and laughing. They originally couldn't do anything to fix the States because of the nukes and nuclear capitalism just kept rewarding the most inbred failsons in an endless cycle like the royal families, but they disabled the nukes decades ago and isolated the States, leaving a constant horrific reminder of the inevitable results of capitalism (amid a longstanding debate about socialist self-determination).

The rise of president Notsure then gave them a sociological experiment and data too good to pass up, and the field of Sociology is having a resurgence it hasn't had in years.

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[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.