Life would be easier if society did not ignore geniuses. People can choose to ignore wisdom, and if they decide that the source threatens their own self-image, they will ignore the message along with the messenger. This is why politicians love to be humble and periodically have "human interest moments," like mispronouncing a word (USA) or showing some cleavage (DE).
This weird kind of passive revenge is empowered by our ability to, using our very big brains, shut off any input we do not like in the world around us. We can create a false symbolic world as a result, false because it does not accurately represent reality, and symbolic because it shows us only a partial representation but represents in communication the whole.
Psychology gives us, in true deconstructionist style, a multitude of justifications or diagnoses of this condition, but we can be plain speakers and call it delusion. The root of this delusion is an emotional stubbornness that comes not from fear of change but from fear of the world, and consequently, preferring the "controlled" world of our own false symbolic worlds.
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We call this delusion intransigence, a word that means stubbornness with undertones of delay, selfishness and inability to act when required by the reality outside the self. Its roots in the vernacular meaning of "unwilling to compromise" suggest its psychological pattern: people become unwilling to adapt their inner mental vision of the world to data from the world.