#Idiocracy Predicted All of This
Twenty years later, #MikeJudge ’s prescient comedy is getting harder to laugh at.
By Heather Martin, September 1, 2026
"#Corporations twist public institutions into thinly veiled cash cows. Unprecedented #drought and #FoodInsecurity loom. A civil servant who tries to use science to save millions of lives is threatened with death. News and entertainment, religion and profanity, politics and violence, eating and excreting have all collapsed into a singularity of the human condition.
"I can’t tell whether I’m remembering the plot of Idiocracy or this is all part of real life in 2026, twenty years after the movie’s release.
"Most iconic films that define a generation—its hopes, fears, and fashion—do so by crystallizing a moment in time. It’s a rare trick requiring uncommon insight. Think The Graduate, The Breakfast Club, Slacker. Watching any one of them now is like opening a window on the past. Imagine what it takes to write and direct such a movie, like 2006’s Idiocracy, that captures a moment two decades in the future with startling accuracy."
Read more:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/culture/mike-judge-idiocracy-turns-20/
#USPol #MAGA #Trump
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