It's anti-eugenics, as the elite stop having children, and the dolts have many.

I would argue that no one has power, because everyone is basically living off of whatever came before them and they don't understand how anything works anymore. Everything is set to automation. Going to the doctor, for example, is just plugging something into your butt and mouth and the machine outputs an answer. Ordering a meal is just pressing a button with a picture on it. The only thing politicians do is decide who's going to be the next victim in the monster truck rally. Everyone else is a spectator. It isn't until Joe arrives that things change. He's the most average person by the standards of his natural time, but because he wakes up 500 years into the future, he's now a genius because everyone else has devolved intellectually. The country runs because the systems that were previously designed are still running, mostly. The movie is actually happening during an inflection point where those systems are breaking down.

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Dr. Pratt isn’t willing to risk an injury for a quick errand — and, after talking to him, neither am I.

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cakes wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 5:06 pm It's anti-eugenics, as the elite stop having children, and the dolts have many.

The movie's plot is the consequence or poor and uneducated people breeding. The future is a hellhole because of who had children. It's absolutely about eugenics in that it's a warning about the wrong people having children.

Mike Judge thinks the poor and educated Liberals are the problem. Gee, Mike, I wonder where you fall politically.

I loved OS and B&B and SV but Mike Judge Is Libertarian trash.

It's a comedy, that's just a plot device to get you to the setup. Sure it's a dumb one, but if you think there's any deep social commentary in a quick summary that gets us 500 years into the future, you're missing the forest for the trees.

Like, it is clearly Devo: The Movie. Or are you similarly upset by "Mongoloid" and other songs? Idiocracy is not even particularly detailed about its dystopia, but for sure it's "prophetic" enough in calling out the jingoism and anti-intellectualism that have already led to Trump being in office. The problem is even Trump supporters will call it a "documentary" . . .

gotdamn wrote: Sun Apr 27, 2025 3:33 am It's a comedy, that's just a plot device to get you to the setup.

And in order for it to work you have to buy the premise. And the writer assumes you will if they set it up that way.

gotdamn wrote: Sun Apr 27, 2025 3:33 am The problem is even Trump supporters will call it a "documentary" . . .

i've noticed that too.
anything that makes dumb people feel smart has no right to criticize them also.

Dovira wrote: Sun Apr 27, 2025 5:21 am

gotdamn wrote: Sun Apr 27, 2025 3:33 am It's a comedy, that's just a plot device to get you to the setup.

And in order for it to work you have to buy the premise. And the writer assumes you will if they set it up that way.

This is a movie from the creator of Beavis and Butthead.

gotdamn wrote: Sun Apr 27, 2025 5:58 am

Dovira wrote: Sun Apr 27, 2025 5:21 am

gotdamn wrote: Sun Apr 27, 2025 3:33 am It's a comedy, that's just a plot device to get you to the setup.

And in order for it to work you have to buy the premise. And the writer assumes you will if they set it up that way.

This is a movie from the creator of Beavis and Butthead.

Yes?

pet fever detector wrote: Sat Apr 26, 2025 7:54 pm I loved OS and B&B and SV but Mike Judge Is Libertarian trash.

I know nothing about his politics but I've not detected that from his work at all (unlike, say, South Park). If there's any theme that connects all of his work it's a cynicism of corporations (down to the fuckin' MegaLo Mart in King of the Hill) that nearly prevented Idiocracy from being released at all.

I think it's worth pointing out that just because dumb/maga idiots breeding may be the cause in Idiocracy it's not necessarily saying that eugenics is the solution. It's clear it's a lack of education that's the problem, not bad genetics.
If anything, like with Judge's aforementioned disdain for corporations, it's taking aim at capitalism and consumerism and their effect on society.