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[–] RandomNumberGod 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Because for a working-class laborer, feeding their kids is more important than intellectual pursuits. In order to understand that your immediate needs are best fulfilled by resolving the larger problems of your society, you must spend the effort necessary to understand the deeper mechanisms at work, but for your mind to engage in such frivolous pursuits, it demands that your more essential needs are fulfilled first. It's a vicious circle, where the poor never attain political consciousness because they are too busy trying to get by. This theory captures the idea pretty well.

Of course, there isn't a strict flowchart that your brain follows, there exist both natural thinkers and the intellectually lazy.

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[–] Konran [S] ago 

Agree with what you say, but that isn't really what I was questioning. I don't believe you need to be focused on intellectual pursuits or have attained some political consciousness to realise that you don't know something. Being self-aware is not an educational thing - in reality accepting that you are not an authority on something does not need to be learned. So I guess like some posters have said before it comes down to a need to maintain self esteem (with an inherent need for belonging if you will), even though it's based on flimsy opinion pieces that people choose to believe without thought.