The people I try to talk to are actually pretty smart and educated. My sister is an engineer at MIT and my mother-in-law has about a dozen P.H.D's (honorary) for her works. They still refuse to listem.
My massage person and I have had some good discussions in the past, with a lot of give and take. Last night, however, she was just parroting one talking point after another, jumping all over the place. The transformation was eerie.