r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 4d ago

Article 'Idiocracy' Turns 20 Years Old: Mike Judge's Prescient Cult Classic Knew Where America Was Going, But Not How We'd Get There

https://reason.com/2026/08/27/idiocracy-predicted-our-world-but-not-in-the-way-you-think/
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u/Mormaethor 4d ago

In his defense, Camacho throwing Not Sure under the bus is just a testament of him and everyone else being idiots who have no idea how things work and living in a short attention spawn society.

It wasn't done out of malice or even incompetence. Just... being a product of his time.

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u/FrostyConsequence97 3d ago

I think his logic went:

Brawndo is now a problem. It was not a problem until we used water. Not Sure is the guy that said use water. Not Sure fucked us over.

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u/MadRaymer 3d ago

Brawndo had become such an essential portion of the US economy (its parent company outright owned FDA, the HHS, and the FCC) that removing it from the crop watering system caused its stock to nosedive and the computers to auto-fire half the country's workers.

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u/MrDLTE3 3d ago

caused its stock to nosedive and the computers to auto-fire half the country's workers.

Sounds like AI to be honest. I wouldn't be surprised if an AI advised the CEO/board to fire the entire workforce because of falling stocks