"eventually we will master this new paradigm and learn to respect the many nuances that inhabit the less obvious nooks and crannies of popular opinion."
Gee wish that was right, trouble is our frontal lobes have not changed in thousands of years and here alone is where everything human that is soulless and evil resides also true beauty of personality, intelligence is a metric that stands utterly alone in science from all other personalty/affective factors, the frontal lobe is what makes a person a human nothing else ..or next to not human and this is not going to change anytime soon.
So very many per capita simply do not have the easy choice in the degree of rational view of others and the world. The brain being the most complicated thing in the cosmos relies almost solely on a perfect to plan biological cascade in the 1st and second trimester of life and exists in end point competency as a sliding scale all the way to the full kit human brain type example (relatively rare).
Only in the minority does this go perfectly to biological plan (ignoring genetic or congenital aetiology here as this is an entirely different discussion although there are many endpoint behavioural crossovers) due to poor hormonal timing and/or concentration, allergic inflammation, nutrients, modern day chemical imposts...seriously a whole host of possible and impossible to mediate interruptions and deviations not on the original perfected biological cascade flow chart over this long period of time it takes to create the greatest most complicated wonder ever created in the cosmos.
Iq is easy for the brain but the highest by a country mile achievement for nature is the cognitive emotional executive portion of the brain where the frontal lobe is king of all things bar none, so we all get some of mass produced version the original frontal lobe prototype.... rarely the full kit...with the most common form being sadly sub par on this sliding scale. It's the reason ai will never own fully teneted high functioning consciousness (an actual high functioning personality) that bridge is so far away it's an utter joke..delusion.....those that promote this more probably missed out entirely on the frontal lobe lucky dip.
So because there is such a drastic variance many lobes where not kitted out to advance with a higher than not ability to emotionally see the world from an executive point of view.......excising the harder core mental illness's here (which cannot be caught, but are hard set during gestation although both can impact simultaneously) still leaves a whole gambit of people who quite simply missed out on the more optioned and able brain and regardless of IQ the ability to form a fully teneted personality is king in the human lucky dip of life.
Hence humans can never achieve enlightenment as a species...hell for the exact same reason above say only 2 in any 10 dogs are truly impressive dogs as dogs go and this by their/a far less comprehensive frontal lobe sophistication.
the higher functioning frontal lobe is less common than all the forms of less than normal frontal lobe because the scale that one could apply to the fractional lobe doesn't relate to an arithmetic x/y bell curve of a metric vs number of people etc but is expressed more precisely as what fraction of the precise prototype was achieved (process quality control)...and if we had to graphed it the majority position on this scale considered more typical on a bell curve would bunch in number a standard deviation or two on the poorly/left side.
As a result ideology, dogma, magical thinking, all other individual degrees of on a slide scale psychosis/delusion... all common psychopathic beliefs and behaviours are actually more the norm than the exception... all low caste like cognitive emotional behaviours are going to stay with us until the dawn of human time...we have reached the zenith the social structure building Iq is capable...with enlightenment impossible due to impossible biological complexity of building enough per capita higher level high functioning frontal lobes.
We are screwed forever in this sense with control, power, prey-full behaviour/views and self and group/tribal one-upmanship will remain the median human behaviour moving forward as in the past....only thing those who through fluke got whatever degree of the fuller frontal lobe kit can do is fight all those who see the world through the lower functioning mass produced version of the biological prototype.....deny all ideology's and those people who freely present as orthodox collectivist in nature (as this is the manifest form of a lower kit emotional executive + psychopathy) for in humans this is the ONLY way the most common low cognitive executive emotional outputs can be expressed as adults (did mention psychopathy exists on a spectrum)..because up front they are still relative children or adolescents in emotional advancement and will always trail far far far behind for peers...doesn't mean they have to be bad people just means they cannot ever be actual good people.......and they will also be quite content in that understanding never feeling the need to change or mediate.....this affliction of reality cuts both ways.