Evidence And Mystery

If you hide something, it is often the best policy to hide it completely in plain sight. That way the typical and reliable characteristic that most people have of denying the obvious can be exploited. Whether they are only denying to others but secretly admitting to themselves I don't know...

The 'War Fairy.' -
it's a just a sci-fi thing...

Carl Jung though, said something along the lines of enlightenment not being reached by envisioning ever more luminous things and beings but by discovering 'the consciousness in the dark.'

Socrates much earlier voiced some criticism of the professional sophists, as he called them, applying the term specifically to a character called Protagoras, who went around charging money to 'make people wise,' but who in reality had a linguistic tactic of making 'the weaker argument appear the stronger.'

And so in many of these matters of ideas, we are often left to contemplate the ephemeral.

There are few, if any, immediate lightning bolt strikes of logic and persuasion, whose impact may be palpably felt like a kung fu blow!

Rather, the effects of sound ideas, especially those rare and precious and innovative and inspired ones - are often only understood a long long time after they had already worked their mysterious magic.

And thus the idea of 'evidence' is regularly a futile and a misconceived approach, when taking on the errors of world opinion.