Idiocracy

High school (ages 12+)
Future & Imagination

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/idiocracy

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. Who wrote Idiocracy?Mike Judge and Etan Cohen
2. What is the film production year?2006
3. What is the director and co-producer?Mike Judge
4. What is Idiocracy about?It’s a movie where a librarian wakes up 500 years later to a world where people aren’t very smart.
5. Why did the main character get stuck in the future?He was part of a sleep experiment that was supposed to last one year but went wrong, sending him 500 years ahead.

Social Satire: The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices.
Anti-intellectualism: Opposition to or distrust of intellectuals, intellectual pursuits, and education.
Commercialism: An emphasis on the importance of buying and selling goods, often to the detriment of other values.
Dysgenics: The hypothetical opposite of eugenics, suggesting a decline in heritable characteristics of a population.