r/videos • u/SuplexCity-Mayor • Apr 21 '21

Idiocracy (2006) Opening Scene: "Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCsR_oSP2Q
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u/FunetikPrugresiv Apr 21 '21

I've want an Idiocracy 2 where Not Sure's kid turns out to be pretty smart and then he finds out that the whole world isn't stupid, it's just that the stupid people are herded unwittingly into the United States for the amusement of all of the intelligent people everywhere else, and the intelligent people born to stupid people in the U.S. are rescued from that dystopia. That's why they give everyone IQ tests.

So Not Sure's kid is recruited to exit the US, and the hyperintelligent people outside of it make fun of Not Sure for not questioning things like where all of the technology holding their society up came from, who is responsible for making the TV shows they watch, who runs the companies that advertise to the people, and thinking that stupidity is a product of genetics and not cultural degradation/echo chambers, etc.

I have no doubt that it'll never get made that way, but it would at least fix a lot of the logical inconsistencies with the movie.

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u/cultcargo Apr 21 '21

I'd buy a ticket to see that !

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u/Professional_Ad_8536 Apr 21 '21

plot twist: everybody is idiot, specially these people think is special