They do keep lying. I know it's not the point of the post, but it's not just that, "They're dumb and uncreative and They don't know what else to do and everyone is going to put up with it anyway."

That's certainly true to a great extent, but I would suggest something deeper (perhaps we could even use the word "occult") is at work. This quote has haunted me since I first came across it:

In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of.”probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. – Theodore Dalrymple

"A society of emasculated liars". Now think of all the professional and highly educated readers of The Lancet, a high-profile and prestigious academic publication. Could and should they "get what's going on" just as well as anyone else? Of course!

But how many will speak up about it? We'll see, but I suspect the number will round down to zero percent. All the others will, I suggest here, have undergone a variety of "alchemical processing".

PS: All the popular charlatans talking endlessly about alchemy on the popular podcasts never talk about anything like this. That should tell you what you need to know about the relevance and importance of anything they say, and why they're promoted in the first place.