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4 days agoAll true, but imo the movie doesn’t make an argument for a technocracy.
My read is that the movie is mostly critical of the US system, including capitalism, hyper-masculinity, hyper-consumerism and identity politics.
The movie doesn’t even star ‘smart’ people or elites because they all went extinct. And the reason they went extinct is because the system directed them into a rat-race of career succes and material wealth that ultimately led to an evolutionary dead end.
The movie actually ends with average people assuming responsibility for government, raising families and working together to improve the lives of the people.
If you really want to get political, you could argue that the system actually promotes and rewards stupidity.
The US government actively frustrates journalists and regularly withholds critical information from the public. Also, every major news outlet in the US is held by a major corporation and these corporations are well known to use both their public influence and financial means to promote corporate interests at the expense of public interests.
And on top of that, both political parties run polarizing campaigns that have the effect of turning parts of society on to each other, while mostly serving their own interests and those of corporations.
Much like the protagonist in the movie, you can try and make a sincere and rational plea for change, but politics have become a reality tv show that drowns out anything that is not sensational or absurd.