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by buzzkills 3823 days ago
idiocracy
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unsure why you're getting downvotes, the movie was a satire of the aughties and yet grows more poignant with time

though exaggerated it is compelling in its depictions of politics, family planning, television, policing, language, waste management, control through sedation, food, health, standardised tests, and on and on

hell, it's essentially predicated on a beloved sf author's dismissive pith:

    There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and 
    there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism 
    has been a constant thread winding its way through our 
    political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion 
    that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as
    your knowledge.
and in the end the film remains hopeful of the future
i remember reading the controversy surrounding corporations' offering an egg freezing plan and thinking to myself, 'i was unaware that was even a thing'

then some time later i was having a reviewing of idiocracy and i realised i had heard of egg freezing plans before

because i know i had seen the film before and the film was referencing the option