The introduction may be confusing but it wasn’t advocating for eugenics, the movie intro can be viewed as dumb people raise their kids to be dumb, not that intelligence was passed down genetically. And you are correct, religion and power need uneducated people to maintain hegemony.
For starters, it’s talking evolution. A specific biological process about inherited genes.
“How did this happen? Evolution does
not make moral judgments. Evolution
does not necessarily reward that
which is good or beautiful. It simply
rewards those who reproduce the most.”
Next point is, it’s showing IQ scores. Fans of IQ scores, generally also believe in the studies that imply they are innate, heritable traits.
Sorry but am I completely missing something, is there one part in this intro that even once implies intelligence as, cultural, education, or really says anything other than “smart people have smart kids, if they have them”, “dumb people have dumb kids”.
Again I hold to the gist, it’s a comedy, not meant to be perfectly clear scientific thesis, but the speach from the narrator, is almost always that. even with the ending of “they gave birth to three children, the 3 smartest kids in the world”. “his vice president Frido took 8 wives and had 32 kids, the dumbest kids to ever walk the earth”.
The introduction may be confusing but it wasn’t advocating for eugenics, the movie intro can be viewed as dumb people raise their kids to be dumb, not that intelligence was passed down genetically. And you are correct, religion and power need uneducated people to maintain hegemony.
where I gotta disagree with you on their framing.
For starters, it’s talking evolution. A specific biological process about inherited genes.
“How did this happen? Evolution does not make moral judgments. Evolution does not necessarily reward that which is good or beautiful. It simply rewards those who reproduce the most.”
Next point is, it’s showing IQ scores. Fans of IQ scores, generally also believe in the studies that imply they are innate, heritable traits.
Sorry but am I completely missing something, is there one part in this intro that even once implies intelligence as, cultural, education, or really says anything other than “smart people have smart kids, if they have them”, “dumb people have dumb kids”.
Again I hold to the gist, it’s a comedy, not meant to be perfectly clear scientific thesis, but the speach from the narrator, is almost always that. even with the ending of “they gave birth to three children, the 3 smartest kids in the world”. “his vice president Frido took 8 wives and had 32 kids, the dumbest kids to ever walk the earth”.