The same is true now. People can be unforgiving if you challenge or change their world views, because while interesting, you have deprived them of psychological

The same is true now. People can be unforgiving if you challenge or change their world views, because while interesting, you have deprived them of psychological safety and the infallibility of their senses and beliefs. Worse, you may have infected them and exposed them to your weirdo social exile. What has changed is normal world views encompass more variation as a result of things like communications tech, seeing earth from the moon and space, adapting to urbanization and globalization, but there are still edges, and some very hard boundaries. I used to be a weirdo, now I'm more of an intellectual traveller. Definitely from somewhere, just not here.