Also:
- He changed his mind in light of new evidence
- He gave credit where credit was due (when the world was saved)
- He recognized there was a problem and sought out experts that could solve it
- He listened to the experts, even though he didn’t like what they were saying
Yeah he let Brawndo go out of business… I feel like in our current reality there’d be some bailout, and we’d keep on having crop failures
Honestly, Idiocracy might be the good ending to America. Not only was camacho objectively better than Trump at his job, but the underlying logic of most of the setting was strong too. Increased child protections? That’s good! Even if i don’t think Carl’s Junior should handle that. Advanced and easy medical system? Hell yeah! Legalized sex work? You love to see it! Heck, they might have kept capitalism but at least the apparent good guy in the system took over.
We genuinely might not even reach idiocracy’s level in my life time.
While I agree with everything else, calling Idiocracy’s healthcare system advanced might be a stretch lol
They had a device that could diagnose various illnesses simply by shoving 3 rods into your various orfices. That’s considerably more advanced than any medical tech we have today.
We have no idea how accurate the diagnoses were though.
It’s also possible that the rods were completely unnecessary, and they were there just as a “we have to make poor people healthcare worse than rich people healthcare” measure. You know, like the hospital equivalent to Spotify ads for Spotify.
Yeah the harrowing thing about Idiocracy was that as dumb as Camacho was, he was still legitimately the most qualified candidate.
In the world of Idiocracy, Camacho is a good president who does right by his country, the country has just degraded too far for it to matter.
In our own stupid reality, the least qualified person is in power who has no interest in being good or doing right by his country.
Fuck
Idiocracy went from funny because it’s so unbelievable. To unfunny because it’s too real. But now it’s starting to get unbelievable again as it portrays a future that’s too good to be true.
Will that make it funny again?
I don’t know how to tell you, but it was always very believable.
Like everything apart from them choosing the smartest guy in the room was very spot on.
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No kidding. Camacho saw the problems and wanted to solve them.
and the film is also a giant commercial for eugenics which trump seems to be in favor of too.
Only the first 4 minutes, which is necessary to set up the remaining 80 minutes.
not really only that part, and even it was only the first part, it is the intro that as you say is necessary to set up the movie, thereby the whole foundation. sarah z has a great video on it :D
The movie is a satire on commercialism. Do you also think HG Wells’ Time Machine is about eugenics?
If you like, ignore the first 4 minutes and assume a virus made everyone stupid. The movie still works and there isn’t any further hint of eugenics.
The eugenics angle of Idiocracy is pushed by corporate PR so that companies like Starbucks are not associated with handjobs.
