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Re:Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck by PhasmaFelis on Friday April 14, 2017 @04:03PM (#14116842)
> I disagree. Idiocracy IMHO was designed to show one possible result - in satirical form - of the race to the bottom that we see every day.

It's pretty disturbing that it explicitly endorses eugenics to do that, though.

Edit: If you disagree, please explain how "the world is going to hell because stupid people are breeding too much" isn't eugenics.

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Re:Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck by CamperBob2 on Friday April 14, 2017 @07:49PM (#14118380)
That's not the definition of eugenics. Eugenics implies taking deliberate action to influence the gene pool in a direction that you believe/hope will be beneficial.
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Re:Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck by psyc on Friday April 14, 2017 @11:52PM (#14119286)
Because eugenics means doing something about it, usually with state power. Also, eugenics is the negation of the movie's premise, not the movie's premise.
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Re:Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck by udfalkso on Friday April 14, 2017 @07:07PM (#14118091)
Perhaps they would encourage smart people to go against their instincts and breed more.
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Re:Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck by PhasmaFelis on Saturday April 15, 2017 @06:41PM (#14123239)
That's eugenics, yes. And, just to be clear, it wouldn't actually work, because the whole decline-of-society thing that we're annoyed about is cultural, not genetic, and doesn't work the way you think it does. https://xkcd.com/603/
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