Contemporary culture and their own education and training told them that they are very smart, and more than that, are logical and rational and can't be fooled. Thus they are easily fooled.
But also almost impossible to talk to because they're basically the arch-debatebros who think every human discussion should be replaced with computer logic and that all of their arguments are "rational" while yours are "emotional"
A reassuring point is most of them are exceedingly stupid and do not understand social organization (or even basic human empathy).
Contemporary culture and their own education and training told them that they are very smart, and more than that, are logical and rational and can't be fooled. Thus they are easily fooled.
But also almost impossible to talk to because they're basically the arch-debatebros who think every human discussion should be replaced with computer logic and that all of their arguments are "rational" while yours are "emotional"
Very hard to talk them out of being smug :reddit-logo: debatebros, but pretty easy to grift them.
The types of people that think having a hardbound copy of meditations made you smart.