Why You Should Not Waste Time Trying to Convince the Fools!
There is a story of a sage who also had supernatural powers to influence the cosmos.
The emperor summoned him and pointed to a particular star in the sky.
“Can you remove that star?”, asked the emperor.
The sage said “Yes.”
“Remove that star then”, said the emperor.
The sage said “Okay.” He looked at the star, closed his eyes, concentrated and then finally opened his eyes again.
“The star is removed.”
“Removed?” asked the emperor. The emperor looked at the sky, but the star was still twinkling brightly.
Everyone else in the court also continued to see the star twinkling.
“Why are you lying? The star is still there!”
The sage responded that he was not lying and he had indeed removed the star.
The king got extremely angry. He thought the sage was ridiculing him and the king decided to make an example out of him.
In front of the entire court, he had the sage beheaded.
Everyone laughed at the lunatic sage whose lunacy/lies had resulted him getting beheaded.
A few hundred years went by and an astronomer was looking in the skies through his telescope. Suddenly, in front of his eyes, a star he was looking at vanished
Other scientists came in and investigated the whole episode. The were surprised. The star had literally disappeared.
It was the same star that the king had ordered the disappearance of and the sage made it happen!
But because it was hundreds of light years away, it took hundreds of years for light from the star to vanish!
The sage had indeed done what the king asked him to do. But because of their ignorance, the king and the crowd did not realize what had happened and the sage was beheaded.
The sage died because he only had power over the cosmos, not over the foolish majority of humanity, who had him killed.
The lesson is 1) Don’t try to waste your time convincing the fools. They don’t have common sense, but they often have enough power to make your life hell.
2) Sometimes, the majority is so brainwashed with ignorance that it takes hundreds of years for them to finally “get it.”
