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There is the intellect, and there is the ego and personality which it wraps around itself. These are the emperor's new clothes which do not exist except in the mind of their wearer and any unfortunate enough to be taken in by the ruse.
The emperor wears his "clothes" with pride, for he believes they are real, having seen the reactions of those around him. What he fails to realize is that it isn't the "clothes" that people react to, but his "new clothes" way of behaving.
In the beginning, some try to point out to him the fantasy nature of his apparel, ("You're not acting like yourself lately..."), but he deems these to be ignorant and tries to distance himself from them. His preference is to surround himself with those who tell him what he wants to hear...that he is not still naked, immersed in his childhood innocence.
Still, the children know and speak the truth, for they don't know fear yet, and haven't learned to lie to themselves.
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of all is that although the clothes are woven of societal pressure and parental conditioning, it is still the emperor who chooses to don them each day.
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