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Idiocracy (2006)

★ 6.4 · 3,516 ratings on TMDB

In the future, intelligence is extinct.

Idiocracy poster★ 6.4

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.

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Idiocracy keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing consumerism, authority, inequality.

zero-distanceUSconsumerismauthorityinequality
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8intelligenceaverage human intelligence is reduced to a near‑illiterate, low‑cognitive level (cognition · universal)