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- The English Language Has Become Idiotic. Mike Judge recalled George Orwell's "Newspeak" from the dystopian novel 1984 when he predicted a similar bludgeoning of the English language, which coincidentally got kicked into high-gear a year after the film's release in 2007, when the iPhone put LOL culture into hyperspeed.
- "Ow! My Balls!" Looks Like Today's Competition Shows. When Joe Bauers crashes into Frito's (Dax Sheppard) apartment, which is nightmarish in how disgusting it is, Frito is entranced by an episode of Ow!
- Remotely Disabling Cars. With the rise of fully-wired, internet-connected, self-driving cars, there exists a drawback for those looking to skirt the law.
- The Health Care System Becoming Automated. In an early scene in Idiocracy, Joe becomes a bit disoriented at his new 2505 surroundings, wondering if maybe he's imagining things.
Jan 17, 2021 · How did the “most successful and richest nation in history” manage to produce millions of desperados, misfits and outlaws who are now on a major collision course with their own government?
Jul 22, 2024 · Though it was a box office bomb when first released in 2006, Idiocracy gave viewers a vision of the future that has come true in startling ways. It's the story of an average man frozen in a capsule who thaws out 500 years from now to find a world overrun by garbage, idiocy, corporatism, and violence. The things Idiocracy predicted have gone ...
- Mike Rothschild
Aug 23, 2021 · The film, written by Beavis & Butthead creator Mike Judge and Tropic Thunder co-writer Etan Cohen, imagines a world 500 years into the future, when civilization has all but collapsed because...
- And The Moronic Shall Inherit The Earth
- Ow! My Balls!
- Everything on An Ad and An Ad on Everything
https://youtu.be/icmRCixQrx8?t=40s According toIdiocracy, the cause of our oncoming societal slip toward idiocy is that dumb people have more children than smart people. While that may feel like a generalization, there is research to back up that way of thinking. Team Clevon is winning and there is nothing that we can do about it.
Obviously, our cultural war against testicles began long beforeIdiocracy with Jackass and almost every prize-winning video to ever appear on American’s Funniest Home Videos, but the dream of an actual Ow! My Balls! type of series is alive in Japan. Until someone wisely and sadly brings that concept to our shores, we’ll just have to settle for watch...
Though advertisements litter city streets, I won’t go so far as to say that it mirrors the over-commercialized version of the future on display in Idiocracy. What I do wonder, however, is if one day we might see wearable tech and augmented reality merge to paint the world in digital ads and create something that is akin to what we see in the film. ...
- Jason Tabrys
Feb 20, 2024 · In 2006, Idiocracy predicted the future. The only problem? It did too good of a job. Mike Judge’s science fiction satire imagined what the United States might look like in the year 2505. From his...
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Idiocracy is a 2006 American science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge from a screenplay written by Judge and Etan Cohen. The plot follows United States Army librarian Joe Bauers and prostitute Rita, who undergo a government hibernation experiment.
