Idiocracy Moment
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I don’t know many people who have seen Mike Judge’s Idiocracy. I heard the other day that Mr Judge wanted to call the film The United States of Uh…merica. Yielding on that point didn’t help his movie, though; it got zip in the way of marketing. Idiocracy has had to make itself known by word of mouth. Maybe it ought to be called American Samizdat. That’s way too brainy a title, I suppose; but then non-idiotic Americans do seem to be the only demographic for the picture.
One friend duly rented the film on my say-so but couldn’t get past the first fifteen minutes. She was too horrified, not by Mr Judge’s vision of a bleak dystopian future, but by his cinéma vérité treatment of the world outside her window. If my generation of Boomers has anything to answer for (aside from living forever on medical miracles, which is not really our fault, thank you very much), it is the empowerment of morons.
The Flikr photograph made me laugh my head off. Really, I couldn’t get over it. Still can’t A moment of truly superb folly.