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The Marching Morons
C. M. Kornbluth
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C.M. Kornbluth was a talented pulp SF writer, who came up with a remarkable number of good ideas during his short life. The title story is one of the best ones. Intelligence is largely inherited, reasons Kornbluth, and stupid people tend to have more children than smart people. Ergo, the average lev
A Rip Van Winkle figure named Barlow awakes in the future to find himself in an Idiocracy. The lowest IQ people have the highest fertility rates whilst the more conscientious increasingly opt out of reproducing. Can Barlow envisage a final solution? Venus is said to be nice this time of year…
Just a "novelette" really (a new word I just learned - longer than a short story but shorter than a novella), but an apparently impactful one. The Marching Morons is often cited as the source of Mike Judge's film "Idiocracy," but I (and Wikipedia) would say it's more a case of Idiocracy "borrowing"
Хотя страничка на вики про Идиократию это отрицает и указывает на другие антиутопии как примеры дисгенезиса (aka вырождения), фильм прям почти дословно снят по 'Марширующим дебилам'. Фабула и сцены взяты прям целиком. И в книге дефолтное обращение к врачу-терапевту даже поточнее вышло: (view spoiler)[She choked ou (hide spoiler)]
The most prescient — and chilling — of all the science fiction stories ever written, though, is “The Marching Morons,” by Cyril M. Kornbluth, first published in 1951. It should be required reading in every school on Earth. -Ben Bova
Most of the science fiction writers who presented the vision of a f