But in a place wherein bizness is the majority National Religion and where there are so many persons 'whose job (or other affiliation) depends upon their not knowing certain things'
... well, you can see that Logic is not Enough.

I guess we all lack experience in the now, post-deductive society
(however well we may have adapted to the post-literate era of the '00s
... so evidently a new relative-minimum on the curve.)

But a whole series of new relative-MINs?
Who'd a thunk that average-lowering could become so contagious?!
And so rapidly.