In history you read about elves, fairies, little people, spirits. It was an accepted part of reality.
But now that’s obvious nonsense and if you see fairies then you need a doctor.
Are we insane now?
Yes I know, nutrition, literacy and the scientific enlightenment. But still.
But only wrong bad people take off the glasses. So nobody does that but wrong bad people. And nobody can trust them because they’re wrong bad.
And spectrometers are clearly hippy dippy nonsense.
The wrong bad people do not sow curiosity, they sow poison!
You see how that works.
Do not discount the gravity and inertia of convention.