I just guess I'd lean toward classing it as a response to anti-intellectual trends that have ebbed and flowed basically forever. I lived in the South long enough to know that even a brilliant kid turns out to be a dipshit if their parents successfully indoctrinate them against reason.
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Exactly! The movie gave me the feel that intellect became socially ostracised and considered useless and maybe even harmful, the protagonist gets into trouble because acting logically gets him somehow rejected by the system, those who become his allies also feel that something is off, but they don't have the *skill* to figure out what exactly — and they are soft of social outcasts in this system themselves, they have never made it high up.
