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Not everything is Gulliver's travels.
Judge makes an explicit argument and chooses to end the movie reinforcing that specific point.
What in the movie leads you to your conclusion?
And:
And
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/idiocracy-oral-history-mike-judge
But just knowing about what intelligence is and how there's only small slices that are relatively inheirtable.
In families with lots of intelligent people, there's also a lot of downsides. Its like Targaryens bro. Maybe you get someone really smart, maybe you get someone crazy, and if you're really unlucky you get a very intelligent mentally disturbed person.
Even for shit that's clearly inheritable, it's not that uncommon for one copy of a gene to be better than two.
Like, Judge is relatively intelligent himself, and he does his research. He flat out said he wrote the movie so people would assume theyre the ones that went extinct, and a reason to think that is knowing most people don't understand basic shit.
The movie was an attempt at getting people to understand his worldview, and I can tell you from experience it's a very difficult conversation that almost always just pisses people off.
Which is literally the same reason Gullivers Travels was written that way...
But at this point I don't think anyone actually read that book as a kid.
Like yes, there's stuff that's based on the modern world, that's how comedy works (it'd be weird to make a comedy that doesn't relate to modern day grievances etc) but it really seems like you're inserting a narrative here or willfully missing the point while claiming everyone else is misunderstanding it.