I apologize for the wall of text, but I think this is the message of Qs last post and the Thailand cave and “Cave Disease”

The Allegory of the Cave from Plato’s Republic

The prisoners are chained in a cave, facing a wall where they can see shadows of things happening above and behind them. They can hear the sounds and see the shadowed reflection of activity in the cave, but they can’t turn their heads. They build their lives and measure their social status by how well they can observe and predict the shadows.

Then one prisoner breaks free. With pain he is able to see the people and the fire. But it hurts his eyes and shocks his mind. He doesn’t understand at first.

Then he stumbles up to the cave opening and sees the sun and grass and stars. The sun burns his eyes even more than the fire. He is blind and angry and in pain. Over time, he acclimatizes, but at first he is still more comfortable looking at what he knows: shadows and reflections.

As his eyes and his understanding improve, he is able to understand the workings of the sun and sky and stars and seasons - things he never knew existed. He feels lucky to have this new knowledge.

But what if he returned to the prisoners still in the cave?

Would they welcome him with his new knowledge?

He would no longer want to play their game of looking at shadows.

And his eyes would no longer be accustomed to the dark of the cave.

Wouldn’t he be a threat to their happiness?

Wouldn’t they try to kill him?

This is Trump. He escaped from the cave.

The established elites who are best at interpreting the shadows, as well as other prisoners hate him for trying to take them out of the only existence they know.

The Great Awakening. It starts with us, and it takes some time for people to see that the new world outside the cave is better.

The whole world has “Cave Disease”.

https://web.stanford.edu/class/ihum40/cave.pdf