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Idiocracy is sort of like the Left's version of the Great Replacement Theory. And the underlying premise doesn't work for the same reason that the Great Replacement Theory doesn't work.
That being said, Idiocracy's predictions have been scarily prescient. People are making dumber and dumber decisions. But it's not because of dumb people having more children than smart people. It's more due to economic inequality, parents failing to teach their children to think for themselves, people being exposed to more and smarter propaganda, and perhaps things like childhood malnutrition.
The core concept of it, effectively it is eugenics, IQ etc...
The real part of it is, it's not eugenics, it's education that's hitting the spiral. Poorly educated people, keep getting convinced to make education less accessible and worse, leading to more poorly educated people, that vote harder on it, ad infinium.
Bottom line, religion and power structures have found education as their target to limit, and have been for decades.
I do agree the opening of idiocracy really presented some extreme "eugenics" vibes to it. Which also is kind of weird because the end of if basically presented the opposite. Where not sure in his mediocre knowledge starts pushing for education improvements, improving the culture etc... Not sure's conclusion at the end was basically that everyone is ignorant not dumb, and society could gradually be fixed by actually trying.
The introduction may be confusing but it wasn’t advocating for eugenics, the movie intro can be viewed as dumb people raise their kids to be dumb, not that intelligence was passed down genetically. And you are correct, religion and power need uneducated people to maintain hegemony.
where I gotta disagree with you on their framing.
For starters, it's talking evolution. A specific biological process about inherited genes.
"How did this happen? Evolution does not make moral judgments. Evolution does not necessarily reward that which is good or beautiful. It simply rewards those who reproduce the most."
Next point is, it's showing IQ scores. Fans of IQ scores, generally also believe in the studies that imply they are innate, heritable traits.
Sorry but am I completely missing something, is there one part in this intro that even once implies intelligence as, cultural, education, or really says anything other than "smart people have smart kids, if they have them", "dumb people have dumb kids".
Again I hold to the gist, it's a comedy, not meant to be perfectly clear scientific thesis, but the speach from the narrator, is almost always that. even with the ending of "they gave birth to three children, the 3 smartest kids in the world". "his vice president Frido took 8 wives and had 32 kids, the dumbest kids to ever walk the earth".