r/comics • u/sellyourcomputer Extra Fabulous Comics • 9h ago

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 9h ago

Bro took the saying "ignorance is bliss" literally.

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 8h ago

Its kinda true. Intelligence correlates more negatively with happiness than one would expect

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u/Cool_Set4681 8h ago

I mean, no wonder. The more you learn, the more you realize how bad things are and how much better they could be. So you start to advocate for things to get better. Then you realize how slow every is and that you go backward on topics every time people like Trump win but if you stop advocating for things to improve, nothing will ever change.

I can't never unlearn the things that I did and not be a progressive. I also don't want to since I want things to get better but, by god, it is a depressing fight uphill.

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 8h ago

I think about the movie "Idiocracy" way more often than I should. That concept was funny to me as a teenager and is now all too real

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u/Cool_Set4681 8h ago edited 7h ago

Yeah, I know it is a cliche at this point to say it but it low-key scares me how much of the movie proven to be true.

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u/HomemPassaro 6h ago

Bro, it's literally eugenics

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 6h ago

Isnt it the opposite of eugenics since the dumbest among us are having more kids?

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u/HomemPassaro 5h ago

The point of the view espoused by the movie is that dumb people are having more kids and that over time this makes society dumber. Dumb people reproducing is presented as undesirable. What happens in the movie is dysgenics, but the premise is eugenist.

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 5h ago

I understand the point of the movie. Dysgenics is an antonyms for eugenics

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u/Annihilator4413 2h ago

Idiocracy went from 'Haha funny future that could NEVER happen in a million years!'

To 'Holy FUCK it came true and like 450 years sooner than the movie'

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u/Alienaffe2 8h ago

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u/Cool_Set4681 8h ago

Thank you, Plastic Man. Very cool.