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Idiocracy

  "Ideocracy" is a post apocalyptic/ comedy film directed by Mike Judge. Released in 2006, it portrays a dystopian future where society's intelligence has plummeted with an average IQ of 4 due to a repeated pattern of poor natural selection. The story follows an average military guy who was chosen to be part of a science experiment that basically involves military personnels to be frozen as part of a military hibernation project, in order to preserve their best soldiers, for the strongest wars, However, the project is forgotten, and the protagonists wakes up 500 years later to discover a world where society has devolved into an intellectually challenged and absurd state. While this movie is meant for comedic exaggeration and entertainment some elements of the film seem to be chillingly familiar, for example one of the earliest scenes when the protagonist wakes up in a strange man’s house as the strange man watches TV but with multiple channels and adds playing simultane