”One major problem in the world today, and this applies especially to “educated” people, is that they are not really very smart. Actually “smart” is not the right word. What I am trying to say is that they are not very perceptive and suffer from a marked inability to look and see things as they actually are. The reason for this is that they are the most familiar with the ideas and notions of the times, having been thoroughly “educated” into these notions and ideas. This “education” generally acts to create a set of cultural or “professional” blinders which prevents the “educated” person from viewing or understanding anything outside of the current “professional” framework which they have been indoctrinated into. It’s not that they lack and need more knowledge, but that the knowledge which they do have, in itself, acts to prevent them from being able to view and understand anything outside their often limited framework of beliefs and attitudes – a framework which they assume to be be all-inclusive and often quite perfect. The rest of the culture goes along with everything they promote as “facts” and “truth” because these viewpoints and attitudes tend to be everywhere – newspapers, magazines, TV, schools and colleges.”