When I was a teenager, Family Guy's first 3 seasons aired before it got cancelled. It was a hit for me, and others. I later disliked the show and others that popularize idiocy. There are positives, like mocking falsity in society, but overall I deviated from the infatuation with idiocy that seemed to grow from the start of the new millennium.

Being more intelligent makes people automatically feel inferior to that comparative level of intelligence, just as it would be for someone of superior strength where others are inferior in strength and yet want to be stronger and don't like that someone else is stronger. Some people don't like how things are, and want to deny what currently is. It also happens with morality and behavior, where someone who does things better, who lives more right, is disliked because of the automatic contrast it provides with those who don't live up to that level of morality. And people don't want to face their own behavior in that contrast, preferring to deny that the contrast is of a moral dimension at all.

The "be in the now" that is popularized by "New Agers" and others is insidious as it takes root like a mind virus, and coupled with that emphasis on "well-being" to "feel-good", there is a systematic blindness that emerges as a positivity mask.

"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."

The key to not repeat past mistakes into the future (thinking they are correct actions to take) lies in understanding wrong-actions that have already been done. Syneidesis for synderesis. Conscience of the past actions as a guide to create future actions.