People do not want to be Smart

Why? I can think of many reasons, but it's most important to notice it is happening. It has become normal behavior. 

Why has intelligent behavior become uncommon? Perhaps because people want to conform, to be like everyone else. This how we learn a language - as small children, we do this automatically and unconsciously. 

And we continue to do this, when as we learn as adults. Unfortunately, we also learn how to be stupid, because everyone else is. 

For some reason, we went from being smart to being stupid.  

We need to know how, when, and why this happened. 

When is the easiest, because there was a big change between the Ancient world and the Modern world. A change that took a thousand years. And this has been the basis of our classical education, which included the learning of Greek and Latin.

At the end of this time, people had changed, and they became used to change.