I think they are just people who are controlled completely from their egos (ie without using reason or logic).
Knowing how to think is a learned process, that is why the Trivium and Quadrivium has been removed from schools and now public schools brainwashing starts at a very young age when kids are unable to reject the absurd nonsense pumped into them.
As John Taylor Gatto famously saidy handing your kids over to strangers for 8 hours a day to fill their minds with garbage is insane. 