Truth, Knowledge and Fashion

Truth and knowledge are the opposites of fashion, and so challenge its dominance of our hearts and minds—hence the universal truth, recognized by all prophets and their children, that truth and knowledge are almost always out of fashion, while ignorance and delusion never go out of style.  Fashion appeals to the intellectually lazy and the impatiently pragmatic, because dismissing an idea as old-fashioned or passé is much easier than refuting it (sartorial repudiation being much easier than logical refutation), and making a concept appear fashionable is far easier than proving it.