{"id":1527142,"date":"2022-06-23T16:34:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T20:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1527142"},"modified":"2022-06-23T16:34:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T20:34:36","slug":"dumbing-down-of-people-you-nailed-joe-rogan-tells-creator-of-idiocracy-the-only-thing-he-missed-about-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dumbing-down-of-people-you-nailed-joe-rogan-tells-creator-of-idiocracy-the-only-thing-he-missed-about-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dumbing Down Of People, You Nailed:\u2019 Joe Rogan Tells Creator Of \u2018Idiocracy\u2019 The \u2018Only Thing\u2019 He Missed About The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdumbing-down-of-people-you-nailed-joe-rogan-tells-creator-of-idiocracy-the-only-thing-he-missed-about-the-future%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1527142&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Podcaster Joe Rogan spoke to director Mike Judge recently about the legacy of his movie \u201cIdiocracy,\u201d saying Judge nailed \u201cthe dumbing down of people\u201d in his dystopian comedy from 2006.<\/p>\n<p>During Spotify\u2019s \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UBu_RpKqCg8\">podcast<\/a> Wednesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joe-rogan-lights-up-lori-lightfoots-call-to-arms-what-the-f-are-you-saying-youre-in-the-most-violent-city-in-this-country\">host<\/a> spoke with the writer and film director about the things he got right about the future. Rogan said that looking at the state of things in 2022, the director only missed one thing in his assessment about the future \u2014 phones and social media. It starts at the 1:26 minute mark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UBu_RpKqCg8\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s so interesting, looking at the world in 2022,\u201d the podcaster explained. \u201cIt\u2019s like the only thing you missed was social media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge agreed and said, \u201cI keep thinking about all the stuff I missed.\u201d He also noted how he felt as though the movie was cursed from the start, saying that \u201ceverything that could go wrong\u201d did \u2014 including shooting the film in Austin during what was supposed to be a drought, but ended up being the \u201crainiest summer\u201d in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The director said he came up with the idea in 2001, looking at the approach of futuristic sci-fi movies showing a \u201cpristine, advanced civilization.\u201d Judge decided to flip that idea as he looked at things like \u201cThe Jerry Springer Show\u201d and \u201cgiant Walmarts,\u201d and wondered if humans went the other way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike more crass, foul-language in the mainstream,\u201d the director explained. \u201cMore like just everybody getting dumber and dumber, advertising everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At one point, the creator of the animated television series \u201cBeavis and Butt-Head\u201d said he wished he could remake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/idiocracy-new-peegasm-trend-stupidest-possible-paul-bois\">the movie<\/a>\u00a0and said he would definitely include a lot more shots of people on their phones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI probably would have had more staring at phones and stuff,\u201d Judge shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the only thing you missed though,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/get-the-f-out-of-here-joe-rogan-says-health-dept-showed-up-in-his-studio-in-la-amid-covid-enforcement\">Rogan<\/a> replied. \u201cDumbing down of people [in the future], you nailed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two also talked about some scenes in the film that Rogan said stood out. The host spoke about \u201cthe very smart couple that\u2019s holding off on having children,\u201d while the dumber people just keep having sex.\u00a0Judge joked that he felt like he \u201cmade the whole movie\u201d just for that sequence.<\/p>\n<p>A description of the 2006 film, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0387808\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">IMDb<\/a>, reads, \u201cPrivate Joe Bauers, a decisively average American, is selected as a guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program but is forgotten, awakening to a future so incredibly moronic he\u2019s easily the most intelligent person alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcaster Joe Rogan spoke to director Mike Judge recently about the legacy of his movie \u201cIdiocracy,\u201d saying Judge nailed \u201cthe dumbing down of people\u201d in his dystopian comedy from 2006. During Spotify\u2019s \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience\u201d podcast Wednesday, the host spoke with the writer and film director about the things he got right about the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1527219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}