Yes, that has been the case, unfortunately, on occasion.
What I find depressing is a tendency to insult a poster with whom you may find yourself disagreeing, rather than taking issue with there arguments.
What is "wrong" with the world is that everything explained in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is experienced all the time. When you even think about revealing that whatever others have cherished their entire lives is nothing but flimsy shadows and they have been lied and manipulated, the VERY FIRST response is to attack whoever is creating doubt. Because the truth has no importance, only our pathetic emotions and subjective rules that make us feel safe and accepted by the other monkeys in our group.
If there’s one thing I truly despise above the rest is this dependency, this need of being accepted, this perversion of our individuality, for the benefit of those in power.
I don’t pity most people out there, these zombies simply bore me with so much predictability. In ancient times someone would be shamed forever, no matter how powerful or influential the guy was, if he couldn’t defend his ideas. Sometimes there wasn’t any conclusion from the debate, just a stalemate (which is OK, keep trying). Nowadays you think you are sooooooo smart because you read a thousand books and forget the fact you didn’t discuss a single paragraph with the authors. In other words you only have a good memory to retain worthless data. Big deal. You are not questioning anything, not being "inconvenient" enough.
The modern men response to different opinions is to cry on his social networks while desperately try to avoid any possibility of being wrong. For someone that lived his entire life lying to others and especially to himself the truth is a lot worse than death.
