Idiocracy and Audience

Did anyone feel self-conscious watching Idiocracy? Why do we think this is funny? I think partially why we think it is funny has to do with our sense of superiority and our adherence to the underlying message. We think we are better than any of the idiots in the movie. As college students, our mission (or at least or mission should be) to "do something with our lives" as Luke Wilson says so many times in the movie. That's what we are being trained to do right now. That's what we are preparing for.
Now there are a couple of different people that most of us can identify with in the movie, and this determines where the superiority/inferiority factor comes into play. Although Luke Wilson is totally average, I could imagine some people identified with him thinking ,"I'm just an average Joe", although technically speaking we should all be above average at this level in school. The other segment of people that some of us probably identified with is the high IQ couple, either the woman or the man. Although they seem slightly neurotic to me, they are probably closer to us in intelligence than any of the other characters (you can be humble here and say no, not really, but I know there are at least a few who can identify with someone with a 141 or 138 IQ or yours is at least closer to that than 100, the average). The vast majority of people however are in the middle of the two, Luke Wilson and the married couple. It is an unidentified group in the movie, but it is there. We have no characters to portray "in the middle" of these two characters. I think "in the middle" is where the vast majority of us belong or at least we think that is where we belong.
It is a sort of plot that the movie makers have against us. We assume with our super-inflated egos that we are in the middle of Luke Wilson's character and the married couple. But take a step back. Does anyone think the movie seems incredibly cerebral? Not really. Why are we, 75th percentile people ("in the middle" as I have said above), watching this movie that probably anyone could understand, even someone with an IQ below average? We inadvertently become stupid by deigning to watch anything this dumbed-down. This movie was not made for geniuses. No movie that sells well is. And so the joke is on us courtesy of the movie makers. Your flattering superiority is blown to pieces.