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Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by dist-epoch on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @08:26AM (#47674213)
Is Darwin natural selection eugenic? Was the rise of humans from chimps an eugenic like event?
Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by IAmBroom on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @09:36AM (#47675188)
Humans didn't "rise" from chimps, and natural selection doesn't promote "rising".
Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by marxisttemp on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @12:23PM (#47677700)
No, because that’s natural selection, not artificial selection by an authoritarian government. Hope this helps!
Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by dist-epoch on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @12:25PM (#47677742)
There was no artificial selection by a government in this movie.
Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by marxisttemp on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @01:25PM (#47678591)
The movie obviously doesn’t depict a eugenics program, but it makes the core argument of eugenics: if human breeding is left uncontrolled it will lead to “stupid” people breeding more.
Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by wiseowise on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @01:11PM (#47678403)
Which authoritarian government, lmao.
Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by marxisttemp on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @01:25PM (#47678598)
Nazi Germany and America, for two, lmao
Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by wiseowise on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @03:30AM (#47686619)
America didn’t mandate eugenics in the movie and what does this even have to do with Nazies?
Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by marxisttemp on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @06:55AM (#47688422)
> America didn’t mandate eugenics in the movie

Correct! It mandated eugenics in real life, in the early 20th century. I didn't say that the movie shows eugenics happening. I said "the film itself implies that the idiocracy is due to stupid people breeding more, a classic tenet of Nazism and eugenics alike." Work on your reading comprehension.