Idiocracy?

If I had to extract one from all of the movies I have ever seen to have been the most realistic as well as most rediculuos, the choice would not be one over which I'd need any time at all to contemplate. Idiocracy, another delightful product of Mike Judge, is the tale of our modern day Average Joe making his way into a far off but then again not-so-distant future. He emerges from a forgotten military experiment after 500 years of hibernation to meet a world of an average IQ equivalent to perhaps that of someone nowadays with down syndrome. Garbage overflows into cities because no one has figured out what to do with it, and water fountains have all had their water replaced with the new Gatorade, meaning if you drink water, you're the idiot. Costco is the new law school and Starbucks is the new means of prostitution. The number one movie in America is called Ass, and that is all it is. Absurd, but is such idiocy not already seeping into our society?

Not only is it pessimestic, but it's just downright blasphemous to humanity to draw such cruel accusations it seems. Humanity is better than that! Right? We've all been taught the wonders of evolution, and we've clinged our minds to these expectations of a future more civilized, intricate and technological. But, Idiocracy had sense in its predictions. The world must be logically becoming stupider because those of lesser intelligence have such a higher rate of reproduction than those of more intelligence, as is shown in the movie with examples of white trash reproduction rate vs. high class reproduction rate.

Evolution does function perfectly, with the exception of one flaw. Once a species reaches a certain level of technology, evolution no longer works. Because of the method of functionality our society has adopted, we have permitted natural selection to cease by preventing the consequences nature had always before bestown. The unfit cannot be killed off. Instead, because they are unfit, intelligence-wise of course (intelligence applies to physical state as well in this sense), they reproduce faster.

In Idiocracy, average Joe becomes the smartest person alive. So maybe it will take more than 500 years, but I can easily fathom the same future in which the best hospital is St. God's and the best tv show is "Ow, my balls!". I mean, look at Tosh.0.