So many villains in fiction are depicted as intelligent, phew, did we ever get that one wrong
Honestly, its always been anti-intellectualism. Sure not all smart people are good people, but in general empathy is a sign of intelligence, while malice and stupidity go hand in hand.
Edit: Thereās also the fact that the smart tropey villains also often happen to be wealthy, and as we all know being wealthy means someone is smart/s
It may seem like a meme, but Idiocracy did actually nail it. Dumb and aggressive with no attention span.
Dr Evil is pretty dumb, he only surrounded himself with intelligent people. Still not an equivalent since DT is hiring idiots.
Fun fact: DT can mean alcohol withdrawal and the symptoms resemble Trump. āSevere alcohol withdrawal symptoms such as shaking, confusion, and hallucinations.ā
Dr. Evil is a parody of a mastermind Bond villain, which is why he was dumb as a subversion of the trope.
Dr Evil is pretty dumb, he only surrounded himself with intelligent people
TFW you realize Dr. Evil is wiser than our President Elect.
Alt: duck soup movie poster, in which a grifter con man fails upward to leading a country, makes a mockery of justice, appoints idiots spying for a foreign government, and ends up in a losing war and destruction.
And some song lyrics from the first music number:
The last man nearly ruined this place,
He didnāt know what to do with it
If you think this countryās bad enough now,
Just wait till I get through with it. /
The countryās taxes must be fixed,
And I know what to do with it.
If you think youāre paying too much now,
Just wait till I get through with it. /
I will not stand for anything
Thatās crooked or unfair.
Iām strictly on the up and up,
So everyone beware. /
If anyoneās caught taking graft
And I donāt get my share,
We stand āem up against the wallā¦
And pop goes the weasel!
I have to watch it again, along with some of the others like coconauts and day at the races
V for Vendetta seems close though
I kind of thought this was the joke. Many many dystopian plots are about governments ran by corporations and filled with foreign spies.
I figured this was just kind of a blurb by someone who just lacks depth in knowledge of these things
Sarcasm often employs acting as someone who lacks knowledge about something. You can easily identify this when the person describes something unusually specific.
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Iā¦ no, no. I donāt, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? Itās incredibly obvious, isnāt it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. Thatās the way your hard-core Commie works.
kakĀ·iĀ·stoĀ·craĀ·cy
noun
Government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.
On behalf of all the Welsh people I know would you have a problem with ācacā rather than the Dutch based (?) ākakā in this word?
āKakā is from Greek. āCacā is an alternate spelling coming from the same root via French, as in ācacophonyā or
Interesting. I know ākakā from Afrikaans and ācachuā from Welsh. Iāve never seen the word definitively derived from Greek; I always believed the root was from PIE language. What do I know?
