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0 pointslsd5you7y ago0 comments

It's teasing us. What is the refutation?

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The Flynn Effect. People aren't getting more ignorant, we're becoming more aware of our ignorance. Of all the foolishness and idiocy in the world, if you look at human history it's always been worse than now.

lsd5youOP7y ago

Sure but the Flynn effect is just something measured and could well just be a 'low hanging fruit' environmental gains that will/already have run out.

Apocryphon7y ago

What mythical better times are Idiocracy theory proponents even mourning? When have literacy rates and educational attainment for the masses ever been better than the present? As a species, we still have a long way to go before the low hanging fruit gains are realized.

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PhasmaFelis7y ago

For starters, the real-world trends Idiocracy bemoans are cultural and educational, not genetic. You fix ignorance with education, not fucking eugenics.

Judgmentality7y ago

What makes you think Idiocracy is coming true?

duderific7y ago

"In “Idiocracy,” the secretary of state is sponsored by Carl’s Jr., a company whose chairman very nearly became our current secretary of labor. In 2505, the Oval Office is occupied by an ex-wrestler and porn star named Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho; our president has been on the business end of a Stone Cold Stunner and once appeared in a nonpornographic segment of an otherwise soft-core Playboy VHS tape, dumping sparkling wine onto a limousine. His name is a brand name, too." [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/magazine/mike-judge-the-b...

scarejunba7y ago

This is a level of superficial similarity that I could use to say Judge Dredd is coming true.

wycs7y ago

http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/114/5/E727.full.pdf

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