Disillusioned
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Not the 1%. They haven't contributed anything to culture or history and if anything are the root cause of almost all the evils in the world, such as hunger, genocide, war, etc. None of those would exist if the world was populated only by the 1% which thanks to it's vastly superior IQ and intelligence would probably just resolve most things peacefully. The only real reason they use their power for evil is because they have to in order to keep the 99% under control. Remove the 99% and you basically have world peace and high culture.
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It seems to me that all conflicts have their root in selfishness, which in turn is a trait that's been bred into all known, sentient living organisms on planet earth. I fail to see how wiping out 99% of humanity would lead to world peace. People of high IQ aren't exempt from corruption, if anything, history has proven the opposite. In your fictional scenario, a new aritocracy would simply emerge, as is in line with human nature, that would then oppress the general public by any means they could, not because they're necessarily evil, but because there's tremendous financial gain and power in doing so.
But the thing is, almost all of the evils of the 1% have something to do with having to get around the shortcomings of the proles. Politicians and marketers lie largely because the proles are too stupid to respond to reason. Do you think these people behave the way they do just for fun? Of course they don't. The proles are dumbfucks who only want to be comforted with lies, and thus the powerful tell them comforting lies. It's not their fault, because they did not write the rules of the game. They just follow them.
Also consider that we live in a world with limited resources, and the only reason this is a problem is because there are too many people. If the world population consisted of only the most intelligent 1% then the world would be a utopia and everybody would be living in a state of super abundance.
Even things like religion were invented largely to protect the proles from their own stupidity, because merely giving them rational reasons to not go do stupid shit doesn't seem to work.
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