History PlayingWith / IntellectuallySupportedTyranny

** TheEmpire controls the educational system and what people learn through college. Intelligent people are just as capable of being manipulated than dumb people.

** TheEmpire is highly pro-intellectual and treats people of average or below-average intelligence like they have a disability.

** The Author is writing about a real-life dictatorship that preformed cruel human experiments.

* '''Downplayed''': The intellectuals don't support the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified rebels]] and instead think that it's possible to reform TheEmpire from within.

** TheEmpire is highly pro-intellectual and treats people of average intelligence like they have a disability.

** TheEmpire is highly {{anti intellectual|ism}}.

** TheEmpire isn't actually [[GoodAllAlong evil]] despite the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized rebels believing it to be so]].
** TheEmpire's supporting "intellectuals" are poseurs and buffoons; actual intellectuals are with LaResistance, [[PersecutedIntellectuals having been driven underground]].

* '''Defied''': The rebels go to a lot of trouble to make sure intellectuals are well informed of the [[KickTheDog atrocities]] committed by TheEmpire.

* '''Deconstructed''': The support that TheEmpire had from the intellectuals (real or [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized imagined]]) causes anti-intellectualism to flourish post-revolution resulting in a [[ThePurge purge.]] After ThePurge the rebels who are now in charge have a lot of difficulty rebuilding damaged infrastructure due to the [[BrainDrain loss of people with difficult to replace technical skills.]]
* '''Implied''': Imperial representatives shown to be WickedCultured are visiting a region where the Empire is unpopular. Locals denounce them using SlobsVersusSnobs rhetoric.

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'''Basic Trope''': The intelligent people support the tyranny.
* '''Straight''': The intellectuals support the TheEmpire.
* '''Exaggerated''': The EvilEmpire is a created entirely and openly for the purpose of [[KickTheDog kicking dogs]] and [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans making life hell,]] yet is still supported by intellectuals.

** TheEmpire is highly pro-intellectual with people of average intelligence being treated like they have a disability.

** TheEmpire [[TheUnfettered does not require]] it's scientists to adhere to ethical guidelines, instead [[PlayingWithSyringes giving them free range to preform experiments]].

** Intellectuals are the biggest foes of TheEmpire carefully balancing their opposition with being too useful to be disposed.

** TheMole claims that he only supports TheEmpire out of fear of the SecretPolice, but then turns around and gives a speech about why the "philistines" in the Resistance deserve their fate when he inevitably betrays them.
** Emperor Evulz has pseudo-intellectuals to flatter him in front of the masses, while also having a group of real intellectuals who are actually allowed to question Evulz's ideas and plans.
* '''Parodied''': Intelligence tests are based solely on ones support for TheEmpire. This isn't even absurd propaganda - this is in neutral or enemy countries!
* '''Zig Zagged''': Some intellectuals support the TheEmpire, others don't.
* '''Averted''': It's not shown whether intellectuals support the TheEmpire or not.
* '''Enforced''':
** The Author is an anti intellectual and is {{demoniz|ation}}ing intellectuals.
** The Author is writing about a real life dictatorship that preformed cruel human experiments.
* '''Lampshaded''': Why does every smart guy support the tyranny. You would think that they'd know better because they're [[ShapedLikeItself smart.]]

* '''Defied''': The rebels go to a lot of trouble to make sure intellectuals are well informed of the [[KickTheDog atrocities]] committed by the TheEmpire.

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** TheEmpire isn't actually [[GoodAllAlong evil.]]
** TheEmpire isn't an IntellectuallySupportedTyranny despite the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized rebels believing it to be so.]]

* '''Double Subverted''': TheMole claims that he only supports TheEmpire out of fear of the SecretPolice, but then turns around and gives a speech about why the "philistines" in the Resistance deserve their fate when he inevitably betrays them.

** The Author is an {{anti intellectual|ism}} and is {{demoniz|ation}}ing intellectuals.

* '''Deconstructed''': The support that TheEmpire had from the intellectuals (real or [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized imagined]]) causes AntiIntellectualism to flourish post-revolution resulting in a [[ThePurge purge.]] After ThePurge the rebels who are now in charge have a lot of difficulty rebuilding damaged infrastructure due to the [[BrainDrain loss of people with difficult to replace technical skills.]]

** The Author is writing about Human Experimentations in Nazi Germany.

* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Enforced''': The Author is an {{anti intellectual|ism}} and is {{demoniz|ation}}ing intellectuals.

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* '''Deconstructed''': The support that the TheEmpire had from the intellectuals causes AntiIntellectualism to flourish post-revolution resulting in a [[ThePurge purge.]] After ThePurge the rebels who are now in charge have a lot of difficulty rebuilding damaged infrastructure due to the [[BrainDrain loss of people with difficult to replace technical skills.]]

** The TheEmpire is highly pro-intellectual with people of average intelligence being treated like they have a disability.
** The TheEmpire is [[WellIntentionedExtremist keeping its citizens safe]] from something worse than any of its mistreatments that only the intellectuals know about.

* '''Exploited''': Emperor Evulz uses intellectual support as a [[PropagandaMachine Propaganda Piece]] to [[{{Demonization}} demonize]] rebels as idiots.

** The TheEmpire is [[WellIntentionedExtremist keeping it's citizens safe]] from something worse than any of it's mistreatment's that only the intellectuals know about.

* '''Exploited''': Emperor Evulz uses intellectual support as a [[PropagandaMachine Propaganda Piece]] to [[Demonization demonize]] rebels as idiots.

* '''Exploited''': ???

** The TheEmpire isn't actually [[GoodAllAlong evil.]]
** The TheEmpire isn't an IntellectuallySupportedTyranny despite the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized rebels believing it to be so.]]

* '''Deconstructed''': The support that the TheEmpire had from the intellectuals causes AntiIntellectualism to flourish post-revolution resulting in a [[ThePurge purge.]] After ThePurge the rebels who are now in charge have a lot of difficulty rebuilding damaged infrastructure due to the loss of people with difficult to replace technical skills.

** The TheEmpire is only supported by [[TheDitz idiots.]]
** The TheEmpire is highly {{anti intellectual|ism}}.

* '''Straight''': The intellectuals support the EvilEmpire.
* '''Exaggerated''': The evil empire is a created entirely and openly for the purpose of [[KickTheDog kicking dogs]] and [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans making life hell,]] yet is still supported by intellectuals.
* '''Downplayed''': The intellectuals don't support the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified rebels]] and instead think that it's possible to reform the empire from within.

** The EvilEmpire is highly pro-intellectual with people of average intelligence being treated like they have a disability.
** The EvilEmpire is [[WellIntentionedExtremist keeping it's citizens safe]] from something worse than any of it's mistreatment's that only the intellectuals know about.

** The EvilEmpire is only supported by [[TheDitz idiots.]]
** The EvilEmpire is highly {{anti intellectual|ism}}.

** The intellectuals only pretend to support the empire out of fear of the SecretPolice.
** The EvilEmpire isn't actually [[GoodAllAlong evil.]]
** The EvilEmpire isn't an IntellectuallySupportedTyranny despite the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized rebels believing it to be so.]]

* '''Zig Zagged''': Some intellectuals support the EvilEmpire, others don't.
* '''Averted''': It's not shown whether intellectuals support the EvilEmpire or not.

* '''Defied''': The rebels go to a lot of trouble to make sure intellectuals are well informed of the [[KickTheDog atrocities]] committed by the EvilEmpire.

* '''Deconstructed''': The support that the EvilEmpire had from the intellectuals causes AntiIntellectualism to flourish post-revolution resulting in a [[ThePurge purge.]] After ThePurge the rebels who are now in charge have a lot of difficulty rebuilding damaged infrastructure due to the loss of people with difficult to replace technical skills.

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** The EvilEmpire is highly [[AntiIntellectualism anti-intellectual.]]

* '''Zig Zagged''': Some intellectuals support the EvilEmpire, others don't

* '''Enforced''': The Author is an [[AntiIntellectualism anti-intellectual]] and is [[{{Demonization}} demonizing]] intellectuals.

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* '''Enforced''': The Author is an [[AntiIntellectualism anti-intellectual]] and is [[Demonization demonizing]] intellectuals.

** The EvilEmpire isn't an IntellectualySupportedTyranny despite the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized rebels believing it to be so.]]