This dialectic is often (usually falsely) applied to many different forms of hierarchy and is the essence of conspiracy theory, examples: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful" -Seneca the Younger (disputed), "monarchs and aristocrats are tyrants", "Capitalists are evil oppressors", "Western Civilization is only 'better' because it stole from and exploited every other culture; they barely invented anything" (colonialism is not seen as morally net-good), "blacks only underachieve in White countries because of White racism", "traditional values/mores are bad for your psychology and you should rebel against your parents", "women underachieve due to sexist males and are put into an inferior position by gender roles", and a more contemporary attack on reason by Postmodernism: "[The] horrors, according to postmodernism, are most prominent in the West, Western civilization being where reason and power [reason = power] have been the most developed.