More than often, the major barrier to new perspectives is not intellectual, but emotional.
Even though we have access to so much information, nobody wants to bear the emotional endeavour that is required in challenging your own set of beliefs.
Imagine how Copernicus must have felt before publishing his theory, knowing that he was risking his entire life's work.
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