I Thought Happiness Was ‘Idiocracy’ in the Rear-View Mirror – Kevin D. Williamson

I owe Mike Judge an apology. 

When the brilliant satirist behind Beavis and Butt-Head and Office Space came out with his 2006 masterpiece Idiocracy, I enjoyed the film but was critical of it. I thought it was too cynical, too cruel, that it took too low a view of human beings in general and of U.S.A.-American-type human beings in particular. 

Eighteen years later, the Trump administration is plumbing the world of professional wrestling for the next secretary of education.