Alot of people (including me for some reason) are attracted to new ideas because they are new. Which is interesting because I think two new ideas are generally further apart from each other than to an old idea.
Really new ideas are just harder to see the advantages and flaws of, so people accept them because otherwise they'd have to think.
This leads to something I find frusterating. Every time I read a book about a new idea (The Shock Doctrine, The Plausibility of Life, The End of Ignorance) I get excited and want to reccomend it, then I think about and realize, I have no clue if they're accurate. It would be nice to have a way of accurately looking at new ideas, that doesn't require the amount of data available when judging old ideas.