As this thread will amply demonstrate, people are motivated by a very shallow sense of self-interest and are either too intellectually lazy to evaluate a new idea or are simply intellectually incapable of evaluating a new idea.
** ... people are motivated by a very shallow sense of self-interest ...**
or are CLOSET LIBERALS!!!
>> people ... are either too intellectually lazy to evaluate a new idea or are simply intellectually incapable of evaluating a new idea.
Those aren’t the only two options.
Another option: people *are* intellectually capable of evaluating the idea, and *have* evaluated the idea, and have found it to lack merit.