In brief, rational thinking changes the senses of reality of people who are awake. While obdurate ignoramuses in any particular field of experience appear to be asleep, truth is more that such ignoramuses simply don't want to pay attention, and one very difficult hypothesis to disagree with is that such people have little interest in wisdom but lots of interest in being right. Once the probability of the latter seems too small, the professional ignoramuses fold their tents and "play somewhere else", hopefully not too mischievously. what's this