This is symptomatic of the vindictive manner in which those who feel threatened by the presence of a superior intellect will attack anyone whose insights threaten either their personal standing or the status quo in general. In a strangely similar way to that in which Copernicus was hounded to his death by the Catholic Church for asserting a model of the Solar System which was in disagreement with the Geocentric beliefs of the clerical oligarchy of the time, I saw a youth attempting to break into a car yesterday and attempted to explain to him that this mode of life would lead to a lower quantity of overall happiness than would be the case should he devote his spare time to the study of metaphysics. I demonstrated this with a series of graphs and flawless argument, whereupon he called me a bleep and kneed my in the bollocks. This is the cruel and unchanging nature of the human psyche, for underneath the facade of civility we are little removed from the basest beasts.
