• Chaotic Entropy@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    The point seemed to be that society was deliberately creating a large population of low income, poorly educated people being fed the cheapest slop by companies for short term gain, and that society then reaped what it sowed. The population of Idiocracy aren’t the ones being blamed, they’re a result of their environment that was created around them.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t see the film pointing fingers at capital or the state. It’s even stated that research continued, but only to cater to the wants of dumb people.