Why? Because they have been lied to many times, and they don't want to lied to again.
This one of those social situations, where people undergo a vast change, they are not aware of - and this change. cannot then be reversed.
Let's consider the first - a vast change they are not aware of. In our time, this was Television, that had a strong subliminal effect, noted by McLuhan - that he summarized as The Medium is the Message. TV watchers got the message, without realizing it. And they became different people. as a result. While insisting they had not changed at all.
The same thing happened with the Computer - with even more amazing results, as described in Artifical Intelligence is Eliminating our Grasp of Reality. This is a vast change - but everyone with Phone in their hip pocket (nearly everyone, that is) will insist that nothing has changed at all!
They have to say this, because facing the facts is too painful. They cannot admit, that everything has changed, and changed so much they can no longer recognize what they are.
The arts have been saying this for some time - things have been bend badly out of shape. But the world still goes on, somehow.
This is all they need to know.
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