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WHY HUMANS RESIST CHANGE AND PERSECUTE VISIONARIES

WHY HUMANS RESIST CHANGE AND PERSECUTE VISIONARIES. WHY?. We are scared and threatened by knowledge and extensive inquiry. Stuck to regular or constant patterns in life and are fearful of anyone that threatens them. FEAR. Man has a natural fear of the unknown

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WHY HUMANS RESIST CHANGE AND PERSECUTE VISIONARIES

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  1. WHY HUMANS RESIST CHANGE AND PERSECUTE VISIONARIES

  2. WHY? • We are scared and threatened by knowledge and extensive inquiry. • Stuck to regular or constant patterns in life and are fearful of anyone that threatens them.

  3. FEAR • Man has a natural fear of the unknown • Change and visionaries are often rejected because they are unpredictable and the consequences and outcomes are unknown.

  4. SOCRATES • Socrates is a well known visionary in the time of Athens that had a great crave for inquiry and knowledge. • “Something in people resists self-examination: they do not want to answer deep questions about themselves, and they hate those who cajole them for not doing so or for doing so poorly...Socrates tells the jurors that, as a result of his inquiries, he has learned a bitter lesson about his fellow citizens: not only do they fail to possess the knowledge they claim to have, but they resent having this fact pointed out to them, and they hate him for his insistence that his reflective way of life and his disavowal of knowledge make him superior to them” (Richard Kraut, 2011).

  5. WHAT ATHENIANS THOUGHT OF SOCRATES • Socrates was not fearful of god like the other Athenians and they resented this and thought Socrates as disrespectful. • The Athenians were afraid of Socrates and his new discoveries and theories so they persecuted him .

  6. ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE • "At first when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows” (Wayne C. Booth and Gregory W. Marshall 314).

  7. COMFORT OF A PATTERNED LIFE • People fear the unknown because of their attachment to their regular and organized way of life. • When visionaries and change disrupt these patterns they become overwhelmed with fear and anxiety over the unknown

  8. SCARED OF TRUTH AND CHANGE • "And he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive someone saying to him that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision- what will be his reply?" (Wayne C. Booth and Gregory W. Marshall 315). • Society is scared of the truth, just like the prisoners are scared of the light.

  9. CONCLUSION • Humans do not adapt to change and visionaries well because we are so used to regular ways of life and the comfort it brings us, when this comfort or our values and beliefs are threatened we panic and we our frightened.

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