>>11Guess what, you've just described totalitarism. For example, none of the Soviet leaders had higher education - USSR was literally run by "mediocre cretins". Remember Khrushchev beating his boot an the UN? He had the education of a shepherd and a factory worker.
truth is given equal value to random noise, idiots become heros
In a totalitarian state, truth is given less value than equal noise, and lies/propaganda are first and foremost.
Take the example of Lysenko, for example. He was a good average... peasant, yet he rose to Soviet-wide fame as a "scientist". All because he spewed constant propagandistic bullshit that fed Stalin's and the Party's egos. He promised the Party super-crops and mega-harvests, and blamed all his inability to live up to promises on "bourgois science" and enemy diversions. All of that while saying that genetics is a lie and that acquired traits can manifest in the offspring (i.e. parent phenotype can affect child genotype). And guess what, he didn't just get equal rights to spew his nonsense, he was exalted to a high power by Stalin, the power to physically destroy all who opposed his unscientific bullshit. He was behind the death of Vavilov (the brilliant Russian biologists) and in fact the whole field of genetics of USSR.
So better have truth be on equal rights with noise (where it can be distinguished by any qualified mind) than have it forbidden by the powers that be.