In the magic entertainment industry, the last person the entertainer wants to bring up on stage is what hey call a 'crank'. They don't want to be fooled, tricked or deceived. They just want to expose the magician and point out how the magician is fulling off his deception. Everyone else just wants to fooled, tricked and deceived though. They are paying for it.
The 'crank' as a revealer of the deception, as a type of "truth teller" is an unwelcome participant in that case, a thorn in the side of everyone who would rather be deceived. In regular life outside of the entertaining magic, how many people really want to be told about how they are being fooled, tricked, deceived, conned, manipulated, bamboozled, hoodwinked, swindled, screwed and lie to? Often people who try to speak up about various issues get labeled as 'cranks' as well, or 'cooks', or the more familiar "conspiracy theorist" dismissive label.
Many people say they want the truth, they want others to be honest, but it seems to be only when it suits them. When the truth threatens to gnaw and tear at their worldview or selfview, the don't want to hear it. Some people even claim that you're not allowed to tell people they are wrong, as if it's rude, impolite or doing them harm to expose how they are being fooled or fooling themselves.
Caring for truth in order to have our illusions and falsity destroyed isn't too welcome. The rare few welcome an explanation for how something is wrong that they believe is right, how something is false that they believe is true, or how something is immoral that they believe is moral.
It's as if some people want to be fooled. They don't want to know. They so badly don't want to know that they get mad at your for bringing a deception to light. The unknown is better left unknown to them. They want to live in their illusory false reality and think they have a grasp on things.
Maybe you have encountered this before. Something is holding someone back from seeing the world more accurately, from seeing themselves more accurately, or form understanding the world or themselves better, what they accept may be incorrect, wrong or false. Something could be said to help someone. What you know has helped you, so you try to help them. But then it backfires and a huge conflict emerges. People don't like being told what they accept is false, and especially don't like being told something they do is wrong or immoral.
As a result, we can become quite careful in what we say. We can walk on eggshells with some people. Maybe you choose not to spoil people's fantasies and burst their bubble anymore as a result of the negative reactions people produce when you tell them things.
What we say can be wrong. What we say can be right. If we think we shouldn't say things to people, then we also can't be corrected if we are wrong, and if we're right then they don't get the opportunity to know what is potentially right from wrong, correct from incorrect, true from false. Being silent may be more comfortable and help us all "get along" by being fake to each other, but it doesn't help us face the unknown and darkness in reality or ourselves. The exposure of the spotlight might be blinding at first, but it helps us see more clearly in the end.
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
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