Idiocracy… comedy or documentary?

When I was studying at University, I remember watching this movie “Idiocracy”. It’s a hilarious movie about a future generation that actually “devolves” to a generation of morons, rather than “evolve”. The guy in that movie is a mediocre librarian in an army base, he does nothing but swats flies. His boss signs him up for a secret army experiment, where he was supposed to sleep for 1 year. Meanwhile, the army base somehow gets embroiled in scandals and shuts down. Everyone eventually forgets about this guy sleeping in a closed box. Slowly centuries would pass when smart people in the world stop reproducing, but drug addicts and bullies reproduce rapidly. The world would be full of morons by the year 2300. This sleeping guy suddenly wakes up, thinking 1 year had passed, and to his utter shock, finds skewed, out of balance buildings held together by ropes. He becomes confused about how the heck the world changed so much in 1 year. He then realizes it was 2300 and people have become morons. What follows is a laughter riot of what a moron world would look like, when this Gatorade company somehow buys the FDA and convinces people that water is only to be used to flush toilets and everyone in the world should drink Gatorade for all other purposes, millions poured for research on why crops have failed since switching from water to Gatorade for irrigation, and a gun-yielding WWE wrestler with a gangsta-hood slang becomes a US president.

I watched that movie in 2007. Now it’s almost 10 years, I am beginning to wonder, maybe, what they show as the year 2300 is actually happening now, people are really becoming morons. Just to give a glimpse, the most subscribed person on YouTube, “PewDiePie”, with almost 44 million subscribers, plays completely cheap, dumb, violent, gory, nonsensical online games (I am a little conservative with words here), commenting along and swearing while he plays. Each of his videos has 10 to 15 million views, with at least 100-200,000 likes. The target people are mostly teenagers. If that’s how the teenagers are growing up, then it doesn’t need 300 years, people will start irrigating crops with Gatorade in 30 years.