Mike Judge wrote, produced, and directed Idiocracy , a 2006 science-fiction comedy that was meant to be an absurd satire of what America might look like 500 years in the future. The premise is deliberately outrageous. Natural selection, combined with changing reproductive patterns, supposedly causes intelligence to decline. Humans no longer have significant natural predators, while the more intelligent and highly educated increasingly have fewer children. Meanwhile, the less intelligent reproduce in enormous numbers. The film begins with Joe Bauers, played by Luke Wilson, an American soldier described as "remarkably average" in virtually every category; he works as a librarian in the USA Army. He is unmarried, has no children, is an only child, and both his parents are dead. As a result, he is considered an ideal candidate for the Human Hibernation Experiment. The Army cannot find a suitable female participant, so it turns to the private sector and recruits Rita,...