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I've watched thst movie at least 4 times and can pretty much cite it.
The beginning shows the downfall of humanity due to the wrong people reproducing, true. That's not exactly to what's going on here. Still it's a parallel.
Were voluntarily externalizing and hence losing knowledge.
So whats your issue. That it's not identical? Gatekeeping the understanding of Idiocracy, man. Get a grip.
Why the fuck would anyone answer your questions when you ask them like that?
Why wouldn't the other person just give up on helping you understand it?
Like, you memorized some quotes to a movie you didn't understand, congrats bro, that's what a fucking chatbot can do. That's the level you're on, but you undoubtedly think of yourself as Not Sure.
I feel like you've never seen the movie Idiocracy before. It's about how the general population gets stupider over time and finally when the most average person in the world finds himself in the future with all of the dumbs, he's the smartest person in the world. That's the whole point of the movie. Sure the movie setup is different than this in that it's about the only worst people reproducing and raising dumb children to perpetuate that cycle.
Your initial response was hostile to OP, and then you had your feelings hurt when they responded sternly? Then you throw fucking tantrum like a the dumbs in Idiocracy, which again, I think you should watch, so that next time you care to talk about the movie, you at least have a base understanding of what it's about. Fucking grow up.