Idiocracy Tried to Warn You

It wasn’t supposed to be a documentary…

Isaiah McCall
Yard Couch
Published in
5 min readSep 11, 2023

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Idiocracy is a brutally honest comedy from Mike Judge that highlights how we’re dumbing ourselves down by reading less, indulging in shit food, becoming enslaved to entertainment, and college-educated people are having fewer and fewer kids.

It wasn’t supposed to be a documentary… but here we are.

The funniest thing about Idiocracy is it is set in 2500 yet it didn’t take 500 years to regress this slowly — it took only a few years… or the time it takes to watch Oppenheimer.

Truth be told, Idiocracy is a utopia compared to what is coming.

‘Your Shit’s All Retarded’

In the future, the English language deteriorates into a hybrid of hillbilly, valley girl, inner-city slang, and various grunts. It’s sort of like a Migos song or an episode of “Jersey Shore” pumped up on steroids.

And when our main character, played by Luke Wilson, tries to talk to people they think he’s a pompous highfalutin loser. A doctor played by Justin Long tells him his “shit is all retarded” and laughs at him.

The culture has become a cesspool of depravity in the future.

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Isaiah McCall
Yard Couch

Journalist for 99Bitcoins and former USA Today, also Ultramarathoner | On Substack: https://isaiahmccall.substack.com/ mccallisaiah@gmail.com