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1	->'''Carl:''' Let's make litter outta these literati!\
2	'''Lenny:''' That's too clever. You're one of ''them''!
3	-->-- {{Recap/The Simpsons S10 E22 They Saved Lisas Brain}}
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5	Many tropes deal with media manipulation, misinformation, ignoring/impersonating professionals, {{demoniz\|ation}}ing intellectuals, and/or idolizing "stupidity". For more tropes about intelligence and lack thereof, see IntelligenceTropes and BrainChain.
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7	For real-life anti-intellectualism, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism see here.]] Feel free to compare it with the tropes listed here.
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9	'''Tropes:'''
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11	[[index]]
12	* AlmightyIdiot: An EldritchAbomination is so abominable that its own rational thought is completely destroyed. Suffering for everybody ensues.
13	* ArousedByIdiocy: Being smart is considered an unattractive trait.
14	* BlindObedience: People are encouraged to follow their superiors' orders without question.
15	* BookBurning: Destroying books to destroy free thought.
16	* BrainsEvilBrawnGood: All evil characters use brains, all good characters use pure strength.
17	* BrainsVersusBrawn: If brains is portrayed as inferior to brawn.
18	* BreakTheScientist: A character presents their faulty pseudo-science and a real scientist goes through a HeroicBSOD.
19	* DiagnosisKnowingTooMuch: You're mentally sick, your "ravings" are getting to be "too much", and we must medicate you and close you off from society for your own "safety", even though you are absolutely correct.
20	* DontThinkFeel: You should always rely on intuition and not logic or rationalism.
21	* DumbIsGood: The stupidest characters in the cast that are also the nicest.
22	* EverybodyHatesMathematics: It's a general agreement that math sucks because it's too hard to understand.
23	* ForScience: An evil character (usually a MadScientist) performs morally questionable experiments and justifies them with this phrase.
24	* GravityIsOnlyATheory: A well-established scientific concept is written off as "just a theory".
25	* HatesReading: Someone who dislikes reading.
26	* IDontPayYouToThink: A BadBoss discourages his underlings from thinking.
27	* IRejectYourReality: A character eliminates the principles of logic so that he can claim anything and nobody can contradict him anymore.
28	* IgnoranceIsBliss: You don't want to know what happens around you, because not knowing makes your life so much easier.
29	* IgnoredExpert: They got expert knowledge in their field but nobody cares even though they absolutely should.
30	* IntellectuallySupportedTyranny: Beware of the smart because they support the dictatorship.
31	* JapaneseSpirit: One aspect of it: Guts, honor, and physical power are more important than intellect, science, and reason.
32	* KindheartedSimpleton: An character that is lacking in intellect or common sense, but their acts of kindness and goodness of their heart bring the best in them. This is generally used to idolize any form of stupidity in charming ways when the characters are honest about their feelings without concealment.
33	* LuddWasRight: Researching, thinking, and questioning the old-fashioned ways are useless because doing them is the best anyway.
34	* MeasuringTheMarigolds: Measuring and researching everything destroys beauty (usually of nature), it does not enhance it.
35	* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: A villain (usually a MadScientist) has the title "doctor".
36	* PersecutedIntellectuals: An oppressive government forces laws on intellectuals.
37	* SchoolIsForLosers: Cool people don't have to put up with wasting their time studying.
38	* ScienceIsBad: The work portrays science as cold, emotionless and probably as a threat to general public.
39	* ScienceIsUseless: People believe that anything they don't understand (now) couldn't possibly be important.
40	* ScienceIsWrong: A character dismisses scientific work to promote their own pseudo-science.
41	* SteamrolledSmartGuy: A smart or reasonable character who is always ignored, dismissed, or mocked by the others around them once they speak up.
42	* StrawVulcan: A [[TheWarOnStraw straw man]] used to show that emotion is better than logic.
43	* StupidScientist: A creator lets a supposedly intelligent person say something completely idiotic to show their worthlessness.
44	* TallPoppySyndrome: Intellectuals [[KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect are looked down upon]] with disgust and [[GreenEyedMonster envy]].
45	* {{Thoughtcrime}}: Even ''thinking'' this undesirable thought is a punishable crime.
46	* TVGenius: He is a smart character, but portrayed in a stereotypical way how a stupid character imagines one to be (with huge arrogance, boring hobbies, over-complicated language, {{no social skills}}, and so on), not how they really are.
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