Mike Judge\'s 2006 satire was so badly buried by its studio that Judge spent a decade describing the experience as worse than Office Space. Then the 2010s happened, and the film\'s prediction of advertising-saturated, science-illiterate populism became a meme — and then a way of describing the news.
An essential entry — Idiocracy embodies exactly what this collection is about.
Mike Judge dropped a soldier into a future where intelligence collapsed and brand loyalty replaced thought. Fox quietly buried the release. Two decades later half the population quotes it as documentary.
