Well a three minute song intended as part of a big bloated rock musical
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Replying to @arthur_affect @tesseraconteur
But yeah Idiocracy has the same plot as The Marching Morons and a bunch of other "classic" sci fi from the 30s
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All of which is in retrospect creepily laying the groundwork for the Nazis
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oddly enough, the idiot future society is racially diverse, kinda socialist, and actually very meritocratic
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Idiocracy is arguably a movie about fully automated luxury space communism from the perspective of someone opposed to it
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Despite the eugenics-based premise in the intro it's clearly more that the future ppl invented enough machines to give everyone leisure
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And now we're in the much feared phase where the machines are breaking down and no one left is smart enough to run them
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Actually a lot of tropes from that movie have been seriously discussed by futurists
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Like the idea that in a world of post-material scarcity market economics would reinvent itself around sex and relationships
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