Stereotypes In The Film Idiocracy By Mike Judge

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“Idiocracy” is a film directed by Mike Judge that is a satirical science fiction film which basically predicts our nation’s cultural decline into nothing but a nation of imbeciles. Judge starts the film with the idea that intelligent people have now become an endangered species while the uneducated are copulating and reproducing at furiously rising exponential rates. The film presented a dangerous and chaotic way to view the world. The impoverished and uneducated people were portrayed as the sole cause of our decline as a nation. Judge fed into the stereotype of the classic redneck illiterate that showed nothing but empty-headed, uncultured habits that are undeserving of any wealth or education. Although it is true that there are many people

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