Turns out the most fantastic assumption was that it would take 500 years for a society to degrade to that level. Culture can decay much faster than genes.
Another one is that the larger-than-life, bloviating leader presiding over everything actually had the foresight to find the smartest person on the planet and put them to work fixing things.
President Camacho would be an improvement over what the US has now.
Culture can also be recovered way faster. If a gene goes extinct then we’re waiting for random mutation in an advantageous environment for it to reappear.
When the costume designer was thinking about the kinds of shoes the people in this 'idiotic' future would be wearing, she found a small startup that made some pretty ridiculously looking and cheap shoes that she was sure were safe to use for the movie because they were definitely not going to catch on.
That's a great anecdote. I wonder if the publicity helped Crocs catch on.
If so, I'd like to thank her, because Crocs are the most comfortable shoes I've ever worn. Also, they are only "pretty ridiculously looking" because they're shaped properly, not like the majority of misshapen shoes that crush your toes.
(Unfortunately, Crocs now makes a normal looking sneaker that crushes my toes. Such a waste.)
> Idiocracy was released as scheduled but only in seven cities (Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and Mike Judge's hometown, Austin, Texas),
When they say “Los Angeles” I think they mean some random theater in the middle of nowhere north of the Los grapevine canyon.
I lived in Ventura when idiocracy came out and a friend happened to be driving San francisco to San Diego that weekend so we met and saw the movie in that theater. There were only a couple of other people there - but it was a mid-afternoon showing.
It really felt isolated. Maybe on the edge of Santa Clarita.
Man, I already lived through Covidiocracy — people double-masking alone in their cars, wiping down cereal boxes like they were radioactive, treating Fauci like a high priest of Science™, snitching on neighbors for having dinner guests, and lining up for rushed experimental shots like it was Black Friday at CVS. Ask a question and suddenly you’re a grandma-murdering science denier. It was full-blown clown world — mass hysteria in a lab coat, where obedience meant virtue and thinking got you flagged.
Idiocracy, just like 1984, is the catchall exemple someone will use when having no idea on how to articulate their feelings about a society they don't like.
