I didn't make my point clear. You have no idea how happy I would be if gov't employees were all smart enough to operate a conspiracy to oppress the citizenry and efficient enough to keep it a secret.
You have no idea how happy I would be if gov't employees were all smart enough to operate a conspiracy to oppress the citizenry and efficient enough to keep it a secret.
You miss the point in your proposed scenario. Smart employees wouldn't be wanted! Dutiful, obedient, mostly ignorant employees would be wanted. Only a few need to be smart, and those would be needed in the topmost positions of authority and power. Even then, if there were "a conspiracy" (which I never implied yet which you're trying to insinuate I did) they might not even know about it as they could just be a dutiful, obedient, mostly ignorant employee as well.
Besides, as an example think of Winston Smith in 1984. He was a nobody employed inside the Ministry of Truth. When he got "too smart" he got "fixed" and was left crying in his beer.