- Suppose we would tell of current technology of rather recent time to a person living before electricity has become known. - Nothing similar would have been familiar to him or her off his or her life else than legends perhaps or what would have been called magic. - Suppose “magic” was not accepted as a real phenomenon there would have been nothing else left. - What would a person in such a time (not so distant if you consider the age of humanity) think of you if you would try to tell him of what you know off your everyday life?
- Were you talking to people where beliefs in supernatural (so to speak) were still prevailing they might relate your ideas to those as the general appearance is rather the same. - But put this aside. - Suppose we are talking about a situation similar to the present one, - where materialistic ideas rule and materialistic attitudes are common. If you would have tried to speak of what you know as solid reality undoubted today by the great majority it might have been seriously difficult to gain serious attention. - At a time people were driving in carriages pulled by horses how could you tell them of spaceships going up to the moon? Of an autonomic car? - Of cars going at the speed racing cars can go at?
- People usually are affected by their surroundings. - Quite further than they imagine. - There is a phenomenon of absorbing views or ideas off these surroundings. - It is not necessarily easy for a person to accept views in disaccordance with those among whom he lives. - Though of course this is not the only point here. Or the main point.
- But still and again, - were we talking of those new things having entered our lives in the last decades, - smartphones, computers, - airplanes, spaceships I already mentioned, - TV screens, even radios, - to someone where reality had to do with carving wood or as well creating metal things and tools, nothing further than a steam engine. - What response would we gain? - What attitude would we face? - What would we ourselves seem to be in the eyes of such a person? - Depend on the person himself or herself of course, - but quite generally we might have been viewed as unwise or unhealthy.
- Particularly if we would repeatedly attempt to deliver the message. - Humanity would have been unprepared. There was not really a need for such a preparation at the time, - but anyway we can say that. - This is an allegory. A parable. - For another phenomenon existing today at the blindness of so many. - The reaction of a typical man or woman at a time we were discussing when hearing of future abilities of coming technology may be quite similar, in its nature, - to the typical reaction of typical materialists when relating to the occult. To what their physical senses cannot grasp. To what they are familiar to the denial of by their friends and acquaintances. - Being an intellectual is quite close to being stupid. Many are far from any awareness of this fact. - Wisdom has to do with depth. - Intellectual consideration is by nature shallow. - I will not explain this here. Many who are aware of it (of the severe minority they are generally) would not find it easy to make it comprehensible to others.
Eyes are not gained overnight. - Nor can one give his own to others. When their very existence is denied things get much harder. - Anyway, - I generally believe the general idea presented here, - of the similarity between the assumed view of one living at the mentioned time unable to accept reports of practically possible and real further advancements far from the nature of this-person’s everyday thinking - and the reaction we would find today among learned people fed with contemporary views shared by many, - could and will be easily understood. One needs to be no genius in order to get it. However, - the depth of grasping may differ. Obviously I don’t expect readers would utterly change what they think just reading this. But it would make its contribution. - So far.
Written April 21st 2023.
