Anti progress or anti technology, sure.Īgain, don't get me wrong : the legion is an oppressive dictatorship of heartless slavers and child soldiers. He wants them to be molded by it, that's not anti intellectualism. He invented a new template of intellectualism, made of lies and selected truths, but he doesn't prevent people from reaching it. Sure, the whole cult of mars is made of lies, but Caesar doesn't exactly present himself as a hero of the common folk, rising against the tyranny of an intellectual elite, quite the contrary. He makes no secrets of his philosophical ideas, even to a profligate who could very well tell them to everyone.

Of all the smart NPCs Caesar meets, every single one of them ends up being promoted to a higher social level, not the contrary (sure, one of them ends up burned and thrown in the grand canyon, but that's not because of intellectualism). In a single generation, his subjects learned a totally new language PLUS the English, spoken and written, a new made up cult, which means that they have a functional education system. I don't exactly imagine him, Vulpes or Lucius deciding to claim the Securitrons for themselves, if Caesar dies.Īlso, the legion is not anti-intellectual its cultural template is made of lies, myths and censorship, but not anti-intellectualism per se. In his eyes, anything that would be contrary to the philosophy of Caesar would be a misuse and a dishonor. He's glad that he lost that very valuable military asset. Also, what risk of irrational uses of technology, when the said technology is systematically wiped out beforehand ? If anything, we see the result of that philosophy in Lanius, when presented to the defeat of the Omertas. Click to expand.This is precisely why Caesar took a slavery template for his society : not leaving people the capacity of making choices or bearing responsibility.

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