* Idiocracy needs no sequel. It’s perfect as it is. The movie was great, but “Idiocracy” is more the premise and the core idea of dysgenics than the movie itself.
The core idea of dysgenics isn’t new at all, dozens have written about it, but Idiocracy communicated it in an easily digestable mass consumption way that the mass market wouldn’t have otherwise been exposed to.
Three funny Idiocracy Stories:
I asked a Biology PhD researcher that I met if she felt that intelligence is inversely correlated with fertility. She took a minute to parse through my question, and exclaimed, “Oh, like Idiocracy!!”. Even for a bio researcher immersed in genetics, the movie Idiocracy is the best way to commnicate that idea.
I overheard another highly educated woman (math masters, doing industry data science work) say that the movie Idiocracy shocked her and she walked away determined to have more kids (she went on to have three). I imagine she wouldn’t have spent two seconds listening to anyone on this forum, but ideas wrapped in entertainment are much more widely communicated. I hear a common belief that birth rates trends are completely inevitable and unalterable. The proof is that some politicians in Europe have tried some obscure tax credit program and had poor results, so case closed. But a movie like Idiocracy broaches a big issue most regular people just don’t think about and actually changes behavior. Birth rate trends are absolutely controllable.
The movie mocks broken grammar. One of the characters in Idiocracy humorously says, “Why Come” instead of “How Come”. If I google “why come” I get Idiocracy as the second link. The daughter of the woman I was dating watched the movie with us, and later started unironically saying, “Why Come”.
