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== The movie asserts that "smarter" people will have less children compared to dumber people ==
* But civilization has been around for 7,000 years. Is the movie trying to tell me that the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians were so unbelievably intelligent that they make [[Watchmen (comics)|Ozymandias]] look like a Down's Syndrome patient, or is it saying that for some incomprehensible reason stupid people are ''now'' deciding to screw like bunnies? And speaking of which, the author misinterpreted a piece of [[Truth in Television]]: That people with less income and education tend to have more children than everyone else. But "uneducated" =/= "stupid". There's probably a slight correlation, but it's possible to be bright yet dirt-poor and uneducated, just like it's possible to have a PhD and the wits of a lightly sautéed tomato. See the [[Country Mouse]] and [[Absent-Minded Professor]] tropes.
** The first line mentions that the turn of the 21st century was "a turning point". As in, only ''then'' did stupid people start having more kids than smart people, because being smart wasn't necessary anymore. As for the dumb vs. uneducated thing, well, it's simplified so that the plot will work.
*** Except that the poor and less educated have ALWAYS had more kids than the rich and educated. Farmers used to have tons of kids because you need a lot of help to run a farm and most of them would die anyway. The amount of dumb peasants versus educated aristocracy hasn't really changed over time. In fact, with public schooling there are probably less dumb and undereducated peasants than there have ever been. And even then, you can be poor and smart. With lack of schools it will be harder to build on our current knowledge database, but if society really does regress there's going to be someone around to start rediscovering stuff. How do you think we found all this knowledge out in the first place?
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== Brawndo is ''not'' what Plants crave ==
* So the people of the future have been "watering" their crops with Brawndo for decades, or at least a very long time. Some problems with that:
** They've essentially been salting the earth for all that time (electrolytes being a form of salt, after all), yet Joe manages to undo the damage in only a few days by making them switch to water. What the hell? I seriously doubt it would take that little time for the earth to recover. Would it have been so hard to have him take a pot of dirt from somewhere
*** "Salting the earth" is a ''metaphor''. Besides, rainwater would get rid of most of it fairly quick.
**** "Salting the earth is a metaphor". ....No, it isn't. It was a real practice in Ancient Times, just not always for the reasons most people think.
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** Clevon was easy and Jr. was a [[Unfortunate Implications|Football Player]].
** http://xkcd.com/603/ :
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