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Extremism in US military is ‘sleeping danger’ says author of Pentagon report
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Idiocracy is a movie about eugenics. The issue isn't that "smart people aren't having kids," the issue is that our public education system is broken.
The children of intelligent people aren't automatically born intelligent, and likewise, the children of stupid people aren't automatically born stupid. It is almost entirely down to the material circumstances.
That's pretty reductive. The intelligent couple don't have kids because they understand the effects it'll have on their careers. Nothing in that movie is about the inherent intelligence of the parents. It's about the people that are having kids are less likely to make other decisions in their best interests like funding education or breaking up monopolies.
Although most of what I said put forward the idea that the primary cause was indeed that the education system is not fit for purpose and in a wider sense post-school age education in the form of dissemination of reliable information to the population is similarly flawed, it is also somewhat true in trivial reference to Idiocracy that eugenics do play a minor additional role in that the middle classes are finding it increasingly difficult to find both time and the finances to raise children. The second point you made is vaguely contrary to the ideas of organic evolution, although admittedly intelligence is only one of many selective traits to the point where as you say any attribute of the parent is in no way guaranteed to be passed to the child.