Idiocracy
Release: September 01, 2006

Idiocracy is a 2006 American satirical science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Terry Crews. The film tells the story of two people who take part in a top-secret military hibernation experiment, only to awaken 500 years later in a dystopian society wherein advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism have run rampant and dysgenic pressure has resulted in a uniformly unthinking society devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, and coherent notions of justice and human rights. The film was not screened for critics, and 20th Century Fox was accused of "abandoning" the film. Dan Mitchell of The New York Times argued that Fox might have avoided promoting a film about low-intelligence dysgenics so as to not offend its viewers or potential advertisers, who were portrayed negatively in the film. Despite its lack of a major theatrical release, the film has achieved a cult following

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Frito: "[repeater] I like money."
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Narrator: "[last] Joe and Rita had 3 children - the 3 smartest kids in the world. Vice President Frito took 8 wives and had a total of 32 kids - 32 of the dumbest kids ever to walk the Earth. OK, so maybe Joe didn't save mankind, but he got the ball rolling, and that's pretty good for an average guy."
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Narrator: "[first] As the 21st century began: Human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest; the smartest; the fastest reproduced in greater numbers than the rest; a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent."
[⋯]: "But, as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species."
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