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Medieval people are morons. No, really. Whenever you see medieval people in fiction, particularly peasants, they will always be depicted as stupid, small-minded, xenophobic, savage but cowardly, superstitious, gullible, and primitive - the Old World equivalent of American rednecks. And of course, all men treat all women like crap all the time. Thus, time travelers are advised to avoid The Middle Ages at all costs lest they be burned as witches. Or as we call it, The Dung Ages. Compare: Humans Are Morons. Examples of Medieval Morons include:

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  • Medieval people are morons. No, really. Whenever you see medieval people in fiction, particularly peasants, they will always be depicted as stupid, small-minded, xenophobic, savage but cowardly, superstitious, gullible, and primitive - the Old World equivalent of American rednecks. And of course, all men treat all women like crap all the time. Thus, time travelers are advised to avoid The Middle Ages at all costs lest they be burned as witches. Or as we call it, The Dung Ages. Compare: Humans Are Morons. Examples of Medieval Morons include:
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  • Medieval people are morons. No, really. Whenever you see medieval people in fiction, particularly peasants, they will always be depicted as stupid, small-minded, xenophobic, savage but cowardly, superstitious, gullible, and primitive - the Old World equivalent of American rednecks. And of course, all men treat all women like crap all the time. Thus, time travelers are advised to avoid The Middle Ages at all costs lest they be burned as witches. Or as we call it, The Dung Ages. This trope was popularized by the Enlightenment due to the "Medieval Stasis" trope, their perception on the world after Rome as a post-apocalyptic, war-ridden, anti-intellectual dystopia, and how they saw themselves as paragons of progress recovering the glory of the classical world. Of course, reality is more complex than that. Medieval people were just as intelligent as any other person in any moment of history, but they simply did not have the accumulated knowledge that people from later periods could more easily gain, and they had to spend most of their time surviving, as such they were only capable of applying their intellect to the things they knew, which actually resulted in some clever uses of rather primitive technology. Compare: Humans Are Morons. Examples of Medieval Morons include:
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