Man #1: Idiocracy is so true.
Man #2: I know, right? It used to be that the intelligent, upper classes had more children.
Man #2: Sadly, the recent reversal of this trend has dragged IQ scores and average education steadily downward.
Man #1: Depressing, huh?
Man #2: Yeah, except
everything I just said was wrong.
Man #1: Huh?
Man #2: Wrong. False. The opposite of true.
Man #2: Your'e like the religious zealots who are
burdened
by their superiority with the sad duty of decrying the
obvious
moral decay of each new generation.
Man #2: And you're just as wrong.
Man #1: But look at how popular --
Man #2: More harm has been done by people panicked over societal decline than societal decline ever did.
Man #1: Look -- all we need is a program that limits breeding to --
[[The second man is walking off panel.]]
Man #2: New theory: Stupid people reproduce more because the alternative is sleeping with
you
.
{{Title text: People aren't going to change, for better or for worse. Technology's going to be so cool. All in all, the future will be okay! Except climate; we fucked that one up.}}
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