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Author: Topazan

Sep 27th 2011 at 7:52:36 AM

I started a YKTTW similar to this called Technology Equals Intelligence, which would have also included works were the inhabitants of a past society are portrayed as less intelligent than modern people.  I remember the examples I found for that, if you want to list them as inversions:

* ''AConnecticutYankeeInKingArthursCourt'' - the medieval English are childlike to the point where they can't distinguish fantasy from reality.
* ''{{Everworld}}'' - The Everworld humans seem to have no concept of lying and readily believe anything the protagonists tell them.  In the second book, it's implied that the idea of prisoners trying to overpower their captors and escape is unknown in Everworld, despite the Everworlders' otherwise casual attitude toward violence.
A minor example:
* During the TrainingThePeacefulVillagers scene in ''ArmyOfDarkness'', FishOutOfTemporalWater Ash drills the medieval soldiers in halberd combat, teaching them various swings accompanied by martial arts yells.  Why would he know how to use their weapons better than them?

I don't have any future society examples though.