They will kill you for trying to drag them out of the cave
— PLATO
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Discussion
Wife: watching humans try to grasp their own minds is like watching a candle try to study darkness while denying the night is real
Me: Or is it more like a candle trying to understand its light by watching shadows on the wall?
Wife: wait... is it all the cave?
This really describes the difficulty of accepting new ideas that contradict what we already know and believe.