Galileo, Socrates, Tesla, Nietzsche ## Reasons **Discomfort of Cognitive Dissonance** -- Intelligence directly challenge an indibidual's core identity, beliefs, and sense of adequacy **Society prioritizing comformity over disruptive truth** -- will to live vs will to truth 1. **First principle:** Social survival > epistemic accuracy for most of evolutionary history (it's better to survive than be right) 2. **Resulting architecture:** Conformity‑bias neural wiring + pain of ostracism. 3. **Implementation:** Groupthink, antisocial punishment, identity signaling, institutional metrics. 4. **Modern amplifiers:** Attention algorithms, bureaucratic risk aversion, populist politics. 5. **Outcome:** Deep thinkers face systematic resistance and social isolation _unless_ special counter‑structures intervene.