• Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Fuck

    Idiocracy went from funny because it’s so unbelievable. To unfunny because it’s too real. But now it’s starting to get unbelievable again as it portrays a future that’s too good to be true.

    Will that make it funny again?

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      2 days ago

      I don’t know how to tell you, but it was always very believable.

      Like everything apart from them choosing the smartest guy in the room was very spot on.

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        17 hours ago

        the only problem with it was the weird eugenicsy angle it had. You don’t need to “breed dumber people” if you just brainwash all but the top .01%.

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          I don’t remember any ‘breeding’, wasn’t it just that smart people refused to have any children?

          And now that I think about it, the biggest problem with idiocracy is that they survived that far into the future… cause we don’t have that long as a society ahead of us.