Visualizing the Future #5: Idiocracy is for Idiots

So yesterday's post ended with a question: "What does the future look like if we stay the course and allow short term desires to override long-term sanity"?   I'll try to handle tonight's post by outlining the plot of one of the stupidest, funniest and gigglingly prophetic films out there, Idiocracy.

A man is chosen for an Army experiment to test the effects of cryogenic freezing.  He is supposed to be in suspended animation for 1 year, but bureaucracy fails and he is left untouched for 500 years.  When he awakens in 2505, society has changed slightly.  The more intelligent folks in the human race have somehow clued into their collective plight and damped down on breeding quickly.  At the same time; the less intelligent have had ever more children.  This process runs several iterations.  The world lies in ruin. (The movie is ridiculous enough that the shallow-end-of-the-gene-pool metaphors don't offend)