They consider themselves as gods, able to change reality at will.
My oldest friend, recently deceased, was a biology professor at UF. He had a very high IQ. His son was contracted by NASA while in high school. All that to say that he was, in the numbers, SMART. When he was a teenager he was very rational about things like economics and morality, all of it. When he got a job as a lab assistant at UF that gradually morphed over the years into Professorship he gradually lost all rationality and real perception and became a stereotype professor. We had the Reality argument more than once and at length. He believed that Reality is purely a mental construct and that it could be changed and Utopia realized by making the population believe certain things that do not comport with reality as normal people see it. Or, if thee people could not be forced to believe, then they must be dragooned into acting as if they believe or, and he hinted at but never stated, must be lobotomized or killed so as not to interfere with the new Utopian Reality. His colleagues at the University all shared that outlook.He was always my friend and kept me actually sane and functioning in a very bad period in my life when I wassemi-lobotomized on anti seizure meds and anti psychotics.