I Thought Happiness Was “Idiocracy” in the Rear-View Mirror

Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson

Iowe Mike Judge an apology. When the brilliant satirist behind Beavis and Butt-Head and Office Space came out with his 2006 masterpiece Idiocracy, I enjoyed the film but was critical of it. I thought it was too cynical, too cruel, that it took too low a view of human beings in general and of U.S.A.-American-type human beings in particular. Eighteen years later, the Trump administration is plumbing the world of professional wrestling for the next secretary of education. … Idiocracy was still wrong, damn it, just not in the direction I thought it was. Incredible as the fact may be: Mike Judge took far too generous a view of boobus Americanus.” (11/30/24)

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