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I genuinely hope this isn't a hot take for anyone here: Social Darwinism is a dumb and destructive ideology and Idiocracy betrays some pretty awful beliefs.
Which is weird because KOTH and Silicon Valley aren't like that.
This is where Idiocracy comes from, it was pretty heavily adapted, but might account for any difference in undertones.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm
The original has the guy they resurrected enact a genocide on the 99% of humanity who'd been tainted by dumb genes.
And I mean I'm glad Idiocracy didn't end that way, but it's weird that the original accepts the premise of nazi eugenics, but their only issue seems to be the way it was enacted.
Didn't the studio take a pretty heavy hand to it? I feel like I've heard that Mike Judge isn't a huge fan of it.
Honestly I don't think it's hamful if we set boundaries properly.
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