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    I think there is a fundamental miscommunication happening here and it’s basis may lay in time. Idiocracy is set 1000 years after 2001. A millennia is evolutionary significant.

    The movie suggests a self selecting breeding program that de-prioritizes intelligence. 100 generations is significant. This would likely result in reduced brain mass and simplified structure. This would be a measurable genetic result.

    Again this isn’t likely due to circumstances I outlined above, but Judge’s model has a basis on different environmental benefits from reality. As he has stated about his satire.

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      The movie suggests a self selecting breeding program that de-prioritizes intelligence.

      Yeah. That is a fundamentally eugenicist idea.

      You repeatedly claim that it’s a satire. What is the target and the purpose of that satire?

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        Two points. First Eugenics has an outsider making breeding choices not the breeders that’s the point of self selecting. Second I don’t think you even conceptually understand theoretic/metaphoric modeling and if you do you are purposely ignoring it for rhetoric benefit. If it’s the former then Wikipedia would vastly simplify any further discussions, if it’s the latter then this discussion need not continue.

        As to the purpose of the satire it’s an absurd mirror to modern life and a thought experiment on the consequences of free breeding without external pressure (see earlier discussion about how intelligence is expensive). It’s also an optimistic and comedic take on NIMH when you take it too further conclusions and comparisons.

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          First Eugenics has an outsider making breeding choices not the breeders that’s the point of self selecting.

          No, that’s not what eugenicist theory means.

          Eugenics starts with the statement that left to its’ own, self-selecting devices, humanity is in danger of undesirable traits self-selecting in such a way that humanity might/will degenerate into something worse. Therefore, intervention is supposedly needed. That was the starting point of eugenic theories. It doesn’t need any action taken, to be a eugenicist theory.

          Claiming that eugenics starts at someone actively changing breeding patterns is like claiming that theoretical physics isn’t physics.

          Second I don’t think you even conceptually understand theoretic/metaphoric modeling

          Well, if you think something wrong, I guess that’s a you problem.

          As to the purpose of the satire it’s an absurd mirror to modern life and a thought experiment on the consequences of free breeding without external pressure (see earlier discussion about how intelligence is expensive).

          You’re again describing an eugenicist thought.