Based on my own personal experience, real experiential (and even scientific!) truths are usually not credible, for the sole fact that most of the world are not living in truth. As the sages say, the world is under the spell of Maya.
Add that fact to the government/academia/business having their own vested interests, and you basically have a flawed system churning out flawed (or at least, politically-motivated) theories/products/laws/opinions/EVERYTHING to people who have been socially conditioned to believe flawed stuff.
It is the same phenomenon as the self-help/spiritual world. I've lost almost all my friends when I took this path, and they all think I'm crazy. I bet it's the same with you guys, too? The further along you go, the more pronounced this effect. I can see why real breakthrough technology, by definition, must be something so far out from the norm that nobody will ever believe it -- if they do, then it must not be real breakthrough disruptive technology. Nowadays, I'm way more inclined to believe crazy people than normal people
Anyway, not trying to derail the thread (perhaps we should have another separate thread for PATHS discussion instead?), please continue with the lectures Aaron