how did the world ever get like this?
"Nearly everything predicted in Idiocracy has come true, and more," writes Joel Stein in Time , 11 May 2016. Stein talked to Mike Judge, director and co-writer of the film. "I'm no prophet," Judge said, "I was off by 490 years." i.e. This stuff is already happening. Judge called writing the film, "following your id. Now unfortunately our id has become our [then] candidate for president." Now, of course, that id has become president, politics has devolved to Twitter exchanges, insults, right and left backing further away from one another. It would be a bit like the British parliament, with the way they go at each other, except it's not as clever and hardly ever fun. At least half of this country has become Idiocracy . Of course, someone on the right is going to say it's the left that has turned so stupid, and it's time to unite. Someone on the left is going to say it's the right. We all like to imagine we're Luke Wilson...