Once you realize the difficulties with the prevailing ways of thinking, those who live forcefully according to those ways of thinking become very difficult to be around.
I suppose this is what drove folks in the past to climb pillars or run off into the desert.
It's a bit difficult to surmount, particularly when the society is making a claim of right for it. In the past, kings and minor aristocrats were proud not to think as the common person thinks. Judaica me, Domine... It also became a way of thinking about God ("As far as the heavens are above the earth...").
But in this culture, the conversational median carries the claim of right -- ostensibly because in a pragmatic sense, it allows people to honestly communicate while the sub-linguistic logics of encounter work to make a prosperous society. The American via negativa. Omnis determinatio est negatio, so leave as much as possible undetermined.
And while the industrial prosperity is undeniable (though how much of it is from continental resources and how much from the social order is an open question), the people are sometimes very, very difficult to be around.
Qed, perhaps.