It’s a funny film about “what if stupid people ruled the world” with a 2 minute sequence at the beginning to get the audience up to speed, during which Judge manages to poke fun at both rednecks and middle class wasps.
If it was some polemic against modern society and how purging the undesirable from society through eugenics, don’t you think it would be a bit more obvious?
I don’t think you have a thorough grasp on what eugenics is.
Eugenics as a field actually “good intentions” at heart. It comes from people who were introduced to ideas of genetics and were afraid that without any natural predators, you would need to limit the reproduction of “undesirable” traits in humans, else the species would degenerate. It just turned out to be not only a wrong understanding of how evolution worked - let alone in a social species such as humanity - and also an excuse to do the most fucked up thing, humanity ever did.
But it had good intentions at the start. So, “eugenics” doesn’t necessarily refer to literal Josef Mengeles killing/sterilizing everything that’s not “Aryan”. It begins with: “intelligence is hereditary, so if stupid people breed too much, we’ll have a problem.”
I have a perfectly good understanding of the theory, practice and horrifying consequences of eugenics, thank you very much.
You have watched a YouTube video that criticises a film and swallowed whole a small part of its thesis and then proceeded to sit on your moral and intellectual high horse without, I think, even a morsel of self-awareness.
Stupid, ignorant people raise stupid, ignorant children.
The movie never adresses systemic failures in the educational system. It literally starts with “stupid people fuck too much”.
Yeah, because it’s an 85 minute long comedy. The people who think it’s about eugenics are reading more into it than is there.
It’s the literal premise at the beginning. That’s like claiming that the people who claim the Empire is evil read too much into Star Wars.
It’s a funny film about “what if stupid people ruled the world” with a 2 minute sequence at the beginning to get the audience up to speed, during which Judge manages to poke fun at both rednecks and middle class wasps.
If it was some polemic against modern society and how purging the undesirable from society through eugenics, don’t you think it would be a bit more obvious?
I don’t think you have a thorough grasp on what eugenics is.
Eugenics as a field actually “good intentions” at heart. It comes from people who were introduced to ideas of genetics and were afraid that without any natural predators, you would need to limit the reproduction of “undesirable” traits in humans, else the species would degenerate. It just turned out to be not only a wrong understanding of how evolution worked - let alone in a social species such as humanity - and also an excuse to do the most fucked up thing, humanity ever did.
But it had good intentions at the start. So, “eugenics” doesn’t necessarily refer to literal Josef Mengeles killing/sterilizing everything that’s not “Aryan”. It begins with: “intelligence is hereditary, so if stupid people breed too much, we’ll have a problem.”
I have a perfectly good understanding of the theory, practice and horrifying consequences of eugenics, thank you very much.
You have watched a YouTube video that criticises a film and swallowed whole a small part of its thesis and then proceeded to sit on your moral and intellectual high horse without, I think, even a morsel of self-awareness.
Silly me, not writing a doctoral thesis on the themes of idiocracy, I guess?