The great advances of the 18th century. All these things sent shockwaves through the human spirit when they came on the scene. And now here we are once again. Left only to imagine the extent of the impact that a discovery will have. This time, a new infinity of knowledge about our inner workings.
All surprises are unsettling, more or less.
All new knowledge. It makes us rearrange our minds and our lives and rethink everything we'd taken for granted. Knowing this much about humanity will shatter prejudices, superstitions, and conventional wisdom that were grounded more in self-protective surmise than in fact. And whenever people are shattered, whenever neat and tidy systems fall apart, there's all kinds of empty space opened up within us and that empty space has to fill with something. Often, unfortunately, it's fear.