What transcendental intelligence infuses conventional wisdom with such infallibilty that we should never question it? None whatsoever. The problem lies in quite the opposite direction. Conventional wisdom is such an insubstantial will o'the wisp that critical scrutiny often makes it crumble to nothing, nothing at all, leaving neither a residue from which your old belief in it may be reconstituted nor a seed to cultivate so that new belief can be grown.

At which point you are buggered.

You have to believe the Same Old Crap (SOC) as everybody else to get by in society. If you are foolish enough to ask awkward questions and have the SOC unravel on you, what are you going to do? You have three options.

1. Live the truth, as an outcast.
2. Live the lie, which is unbearable
3. Persuade people. Ha.

So don't end up like me. Do as I say, not as I do, and do not question conventional wisdom.