Vito on Nostr: Denis Diderot brilliantly illustrates this: “To present the truth to certain people ...

Denis Diderot brilliantly illustrates this:

“To present the truth to certain people is like shining a beam of light into an owl's nest. The light will only hurt the owls' eyes, and they will cry out. If people were ignorant only because they had not learned anything, they could still be enlightened. But no, there is a system to their blindness …

You can reason with someone who is mistaken involuntarily, but from which side to attack someone who stands guard against common sense?”