The TVTropes page (which I am not linking to) notes Idiocracy as an example of a plot where everyone in the society is an idiot and the premise works. If that’s the actual point of the story, that’s different to doing it just to give yourself a plot at all.
The TVTropes page (which I am not linking to) notes Idiocracy as an example of a plot where everyone in the society is an idiot and the premise works. If that’s the actual point of the story, that’s different to doing it just to give yourself a plot at all.