It's not even about being smart, there are people on both sides of the spectrum who have come to these realizations. The hardest thing (next to ridicule) is coming to terms with the scale of the deception.

If anything, it made me more at peace with who and where we are (even though I'm still piecing a lot of it together).

Aether HAS to be denied by the mainstream, because their entire belief system only works if it doesn't exist. Otherwise it provides a perfect explanation for all of the mysteries, including unification of the forces.