What you are describing is actually the coma of civic society: in proper societies (I have witnessed them), the «idiot» ("layman in civic education") would have

What you are describing is actually the coma of civic society: in proper societies (I have witnessed them), the «idiot» ("layman in civic education") would have been corrected by the affected and informed by his acquaintances. It is a grave sign of downfall when disturbing elements roam unreached by any wakers. Note that the phenomenon is symmetrical in the "upper" strata: just like in the lower "kids (of any age) are an island", in the upper administrations embrace the absurd without the voices of the intellectuals chastizing them.