In Mike Judge’s Idiocracy, an apocryphal story about the “dumbing down” of the human race, time travelers discover that the America of the future is obsessed with corporate marketing, and lacks all the basic skills needed to ensure its own survival.
Judge now says it’s terrifying how a movie he made more than 10 years ago, just for fun, was such an accurate predictor of the 2016 elections.
“Now every other Twitter comment I get is about Idiocracy, and how it’s a documentary now,” Judge told reporters earlier this week. And he wasn’t just talking about the Presidential election, where Donald Trump has drawn comparisons to Judge’s pro-wrestler-turned-leader of the free world, Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. Judge says everything about society has devolved, citing the new “blowjob cafe” in Switzerland, and Carl’s Jr.
Judge says the development isn’t a good one. “I didn’t want Idiocracy to get popular by the world getting stupider faster…I guess I was 450 years off! But yeah, it’s a tad bit scary!”
Judge and his Idiocracy partners were supposed to make ads for the 2016 Presidential election, but had to get 20th Century Fox, which owns the rights to the movie, to sign off. The studio was reticent, largely because they were afraid the ads would be anti- Trump. Judge says he wanted to make the ads, make fun of both competitors, and let the people decide which of the Presidential candidates was actually worse.
The movie, Judge says, was a Rorschach test, not a guideline.
