Yes, I can. Reality is not a matter of consensus. It exists the way it
does regardless of what 5 billion people think. If one man has a clearer
vision of some facet of it, and he can demonstrate it, the masses have
no choice but to abandon their mistaken consensus, or it is they who are
irrational. The existence of governments is a powerful consensus, and
it is hard to fight, because it is hard to do controlled empirical
research on the hearts of the multitude. But it is not impossible to
observe and draw some reasonable conclusions, and to attack some bad
ideas and revisionist history.
> And once you have, can you convince those people that you're not nuts to
> begin with?
That's not easy sometimes, because the definition of "nuts" is usually
by consensus rather than objective criteria. But it is necessary to try.