They have no fundamental understanding of how things work.
They are ignorant of their ignorance.
They do believe, however, that they can wave their magic wands (or whatever) and the world will comply with their wishes, so deep is their delusion of power.
They believe they can stop the wind and tide and change the climate from whatever they believe it is becoming.
They believe they, and not nature, are the governing force.
In the face of such Hubris, the only means of education involves the complete and utter failure of their pronouncements to bring about that which they decree, to the utter devastation of all they command, for which all else will be blamed before they end their days in a bunker somewhere.
If history is any guide, it will get worse before it gets better.
"Defeatists" were still being hanged in the streets of Berlin, even as the Soviet Army was invading the outskirts of the city.