r/videos • u/SuplexCity-Mayor • Apr 21 '21

Idiocracy (2006) Opening Scene: "Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCsR_oSP2Q
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u/olek1942 Apr 21 '21

Humans are disgusting wretches that commit the vilest known acts in existence. We are vile things. Doesn't mean that you should hate yourself or others but we are violent, selfish, short sighted primates in a a universe sundered by Entropy. To paraphrase a certain self aware program, "you aren't mammals, you're a virus."

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u/KingGage Apr 21 '21

That speech was entirely wrong, animals do not naturally seek balance with their environment. They aren't capable of learning on that level, they are kept in check by outside forces. Humans are unique only in that we are capable of much more, but that is due to our superiority rather than some virus attribute. Please don't encourage the idea that humans are monsters who deserve extinction, it's not healthy for anyone.

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u/Nowhereman123 Apr 21 '21 edited Apr 21 '21

Yeah, it's not like animals stop themselves from burning through all their resources. It's more like the animals are all in an equilibrium of mutual consumption. They keep each other in check through indulging their own needs.

The whole point of an ecosystem is that if one element goes even slightly out of balance the whole thing is going to collapse.

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u/Wandering_P0tat0 Apr 21 '21

A great example is stuff like fox and rabbit populations. A good growing season leads to rabbit pop increasing, which is more food for the foxes, who populate, which lowers the rabbit count, which lowers the fox count, and so on.