There are uncanny aspects to contemporary experience.
Where cultures lack common subtleties of perception, and these qualities are suppressed within the social order, any heightened sense of reality beyond the mundane is stifled. Those experiencing the transcendental are silenced. Dubious materialist beliefs are held unassailable, and promoted with imperious ardor. Still, those who most strenuously hold to such ideas claim to be so intellectually weak and helpless that they must be "protected" from perspectives they reject and denounce as a matter of faith, because these points of view make them afraid.
Where cultures lack common subtleties of perception, and these qualities are suppressed within the social order, any heightened sense of reality beyond the mundane is stifled. Those experiencing the transcendental are silenced. Dubious materialist beliefs are held unassailable, and promoted with imperious ardor. Still, those who most strenuously hold to such ideas claim to be so intellectually weak and helpless that they must be "protected" from perspectives they reject and denounce as a matter of faith, because these points of view make them afraid.
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