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‘Idiocracy’ Predicted All of This
Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. Corporations twist public institutions into thinly veiled cash cows. Unprecedented drought and food insecurity loom. A civil servant who tries to use science to save millions of lives is threatened with death. News and entertainment, religion and profanity, politics and violence, eating and excreting have all collapsed into a singularity of the human condition.I can’t tell whether I’m remembering the plot of Idiocracy or this is all part of real life in 2026, twenty years after the movie’s release.Most iconic films that define a generation—its hopes, fears, and fashion—do so by crystallizing a moment in time. It’s a rare trick requiring uncommon insight. Think The Graduate,…The post ‘Idiocracy’ Predicted All of This appeared first on Texas Monthly.