I think being wrong is too traumatizing for people. So they laugh it off. They play it off. They pretend to not be serious. Being a joker, a jokester, is a “get-out-jail-free” card, for being wrong. Lack of seriousness means that you can be wrong, without having to pay costs, and be embarrassed for being wrong.
But if you’re serious, then being wrong is embarrassing. It means there’s something flawed about your mind, your rationalizing, your ideas, your thoughts. It represents a disharmony, a dissonance, unsymmetrical shape, broken, fragmented.
Thus it’s very difficult for philosophers to “be right”, accurate, correct about things. Most humanity, as children, teenagers, and young adults, give up early. They throw in the towel. This is when they leave “the thinking” for others, to take up. This is a powerful point in life, because it means you stop thinking for yourself, and give your autonomy/power away to somebody else.
This leads into Politics. People give-up their power to who they feel represents themselves, and their values. However, politicians use images, and lies, to absorb that power and trust. And then politicians use that trust, to their own personal gains.
This is the reason-why-cause that Politics and Philosophy mesh well together. Except Proper Philosophy is more about objective-existence, outside politics and humanity. Politics is usually a step-down from Philosophy.
If you do Philosophy well, then it means being serious about important values and implications. This means that pseudo-philosophers, or potential-philosophers, can be wrong in very profound and fundamental ways.
Imagine if you were in a position of immense power, where literally an entire group, country, or nation (or humanity) looked up to you for advise, wisdom, and leadership. Well, you better be damn-well-certain of a few things, right? You better have your logic in order. You better be reasoned and rational. Otherwise, if you’re wrong about small things, then why aren’t you wrong about the big things too?
And people intuit this. And when authorities are wrong about small things, people become anxious and worried. Small flaws lead to bigger flaws.