Read up on Kashergi. He's the philosophical inspiration for the elitist beasts who seek to destroy western civilization as we know it.
Just a little reading about his ideas got me thinking. The people in charge probably aren't idiots. They're evil and they want a world they totally control.
They do ... and that makes them idiots for thinking they can do it and how they are doing it. The world is full of this evil.. mankind can be the cruelest of all creatures.