In 1959 a book called CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ was published. It was written by Walter Miller in the sci-fi tradition of Wells and Stapledon.
In the book, the world has experienced an atomic disaster that has destroyed everything including knowledge of science......Soon a movement called THE SIMPLIFICATION arises.
THEN, THE WORLD IS RUN BY "THE SIMPLETONS!" These people pride themselves on being ignorant....!
There are some monks in the desert, who are trying to preserve certain "books" with "the knowledge," but they don't understand these books.....because the keys to scientific reasoning have been long lost. All scientists and intellectuals having been killed by mobs of Simpletons.....LONG AGO.
Anyway......does this sound anything like our Simpleton leadership of today with it's various "fundamentalisms?" Does this sound like anybody we know....?
Check out the book at Amazon....in the title link. It's still in print and it's one of the major classics of 20th Century sci-fi.
