But both are disruptive. Change inheres within them. “Reality”, within the scientific method, is mutable (in theory, of course: in practice, it is filled with unreflective dogmatism).
And there is something childish and primitive within us that craves the stability of myth. Myths, held sincerely, are INHERENTLY true. They cannot be questioned. They establish the very foundation of reality, and the social groupings founded upon it.
Here is our very interesting and disturbing present reality: roughly one third of Americans exist within a propaganda bubble that is so hermetically sealed that fact and reality of the scientific sort, of the observable, empirical sort, cannot enter in. And this bubble has been achieved within an ostensible “Information Age”, which has in their case done little more than grease the rails of propagandistic trains, whose origin points and desired destinations never change. They can’t. They are built fully on myth.
People long for continuity, and this is what leftist propaganda gives them. It is the same thing Hitler’s propaganda provided: a place, a home, a freedom from decision, conscience, from anxiety, from dignity, from a sense of alienation.
They need this. It feels nurturing to them. It comforts them. Their propaganda is their mother, in an absolutely primal, thumb sucking, sense.