Commenter Uriel Angeli suggested that a recent comment of mine should be promoted to a post of its own. In the post to which I added that comment, I had written that we ought to be generous to conservatively inclined – to, i.e., realistically inclined – normies who have begun to realize that the game is rigged against them. Normies, i.e., who have but recently begun to ingest the Red Pill, and who now in consequence find themselves stunned and disoriented at their sudden new exposure to a more real world.
Paradigm shifts, in which one suddenly sees that all the old comfortable categories are just nuts, are radically difficult.
I suggested in that comment that the exposure of a mind to reality cannot but be discomfortable, and so somewhat discomfiting: difficult, indeed painful, sometimes horrifying (as pieties accepted learnt at maternal knees are overturned). And as, we all here know, former friends and even familiars often shy away from men infected by a newly red-pilled perspective with an understandable horror of their own.
Paradigm shifts are hard for everyone involved.
This is why the preference cascades that follow upon enough of them are such an intense relief to the polis, and thus are so powerful and dispositive, so irrevocable: once you've seen it, you cannot unsee it. Indeed, they can approach a spiritual ecstasy, and engender deep conversion of life, ushered in by true joy; by joy in Truth, that is therefore itself true, and thus reliable.
To my post suggesting that we ought be generous to normies now suffering the agony of transition to what cannot end (if honestly pursued) in anything other than full throated rigorist reaction of the sort to which we here are all familiar, our commenter Natureboi wrote (I quote him in full, and without deletion, because I think his points are absolutely correct, important, and so warrant propagation):
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