If it’s only you, or you and a few, who believe one thing or another, while the rest of us think differently then you are under illusion, and being told so. You want to be real, go with the flow. But what about this thing called underlying truth? Well, it’s like earth, there is no up and down relative to space, it is only relative to earth. And yes, in some sense we all swing around heads up, heads down as the sun will see us. But in any practical way we relate to the underlying earth, not the underlying truth.
That underlying truth thing is the saving face mechanism that allows us to stick around with our illusion, countering the ridicule: “You have the crowd, I have truth; you are crude, I am noble!”
And yes, if you stick with your “illusion” until you have enough followers then your illusion becomes reality, and the underlying truth argument shifts to the new crazy minority.
Gideon Writes 