I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
![Adam McKay Quote - It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/its-one-thing-to-mess-stuff-up-and-break-stuff-but-683x1024.jpg)
