• greysemanticist@lemmy.one
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    4 months ago

    I thought the movie was more nuanced than that—the “smart parents” of Idiocracy did not have smart children—they had zero children. The smart couple in fact were the ones doing “self-eugenics” to their own detriment.

    Eugenics or not, evolution favors the population that produces the fittest offspring for the environment–not the smartest.

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      4 months ago

      So the movie isn’t eugenic because it showed people doing eugenics wrong?

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        4 months ago

        It’s more “tragedy of the commons” eugenics than “evil corporate-governmental-white supremacy” eugenics.