So often in human history a great soul is so misunderstood that an angry, hyper-aggressive mob will accost him directly, demanding that he renounce his point of view, and verbally and practically agree that they are right, and that he will see things and live as they do.
If he does debase himself and surrender to their demands, he might yet live, even prosper.
If he refuses to repent and betray his own sincerely held values, they will shoot him, hang him, or burn him at the stake.
They could not stomach his superior truth when he was alive, but now after death this martyr lives forever in the public memory, a person to be venerated and emulated.
There is a gentler, more civilized way for great souls to live among us, and their daunting, original views can be absorbed into society without all this violent upheaval.
How this will be achieved in the future will be where most people are living angels, individuators that grew to be great and very developed, new great souls.
When so many are so courageous, creative, fearless, logical, and innovative, new ideas will be absorbed quickly and without social and political convulsions.
Each new idea will be brought into public consciousness with barely a ripple of startled, hostile reaction occurring.
Such a society will last much longer because its people are always growing, always self-transforming so static thinking will not be then much a worry,
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