Everyone has a worldview. A set of ideas, guiding principles, they use to make sense out of the world. This set of ideas is largely their mind. They themselves. You are what you think.
An idea that threatens to destablize their worldview is a threat. But not just a threat. THE threat. That's why the emotion and aggression comes out. If a new idea wipes out their guiding principles, they are destroyed. All is lost for them.
We know from history that governments have, knowingly and by design, killed millions of their own people. Governments are murderous and always have been. This is known.
Tell a person their government wants them dead. Well, that's outrageous. You're crazy. Is that because it has never happened? No. It's because if they accept this idea then their worldview is destroyed and they have essentially lost their mind. They have to construct a new one, and they can't.
Here's why.
Everyone has a worldview. A set of ideas, guiding principles, they use to make sense out of the world. This set of ideas is largely their mind. They themselves. You are what you think.
An idea that threatens to destablize their worldview is a threat. But not just a threat. THE threat. That's why the emotion and aggression comes out. If a new idea wipes out their guiding principles, they are destroyed. All is lost for them.
We know from history that governments have, knowingly and by design, killed millions of their own people. Governments are murderous and always have been. This is known.
Tell a person their government wants them dead. Well, that's outrageous. You're crazy. Is that because it has never happened? No. It's because if they accept this idea then their worldview is destroyed and they have essentially lost their mind. They have to construct a new one, and they can't.