Before exposing yourself to this light, it is essential to be aware of the simple fact that when your eyes have adjusted to the brightness of this new world, almost everyone around you will have vanished.
Our theory -- our instinctual knowledge -- is that we will be attacked and reviled for speaking the truth.
If our theory is true, then this is exactly what will happen.
Let me be more specific.
If this theory -- and my experience, and the experience of thousands of other people in this philosophical conversation -- is true, then you will be attacked and reviled for speaking the truth.
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You will be snarled at, dismissed, waved off, condescendingly lectured to, called a fool, a cultist, a traitor, a disinformation agent -- angry, paranoid, selfish, ungrateful, deluded, psychotic, insane -- and fat, believe it or not!
There will be no end to the vituperation and invective that will be hurled at you.
People live in the darkness, scurrying and biting and gnawing at scraps, and each other -- but they have an amazing sensitivity to light -- probably because it will reveal their highly unflattering reflections.
When people sense the light of truth approaching, they snarl and growl and attack. They shed all self-restraint, all pretense of dignity, any vestige of "self-respect." They attack with lies, with anger, with misrepresentation, with "confusion," with scorn, with contempt, with eye-rolling -- and thankfully, in the end, with ostracism.
They attack with the ferocity of cornered rats because they imagine that the threat comes from you, not from their own hearts.
-Stefan Molyneux.