Stupid is as stupid planned. Dumb down the population and then when they are too stupid to resist, kill them en masse later down to manageable slave population.
They want to drive illiteracy combined with AV hypnosis and projected fantasies. They don't want a thinking population who can read, write, or perform even basic math, except for a narrow, selected technocracy that they select and information that they exclusively control.
Narrow monarchial bloodline elites with a layer of educated priestly support figures and 95 to 99 percent population of illiterate slaves who are expendable as Satanic sacrifices and chained labor. Pretty much the Pharaonic and Phonecian Slave Imperatives from thousands of years ago.
Printing press literacy was the worst thing that happened to the religions and the bloodlines, although it did allow them to foist pretty fake printed money.
More grist for the conspiracy paranoia mills? Fucking Jesuits. Closer to the target, or another distraction? A lot of Muslim populations are still mostly illiterate and rely on media, word of mouth, and their priestly overseers, just like the good ole Medieval days. What happens when and if they become literate?
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