Your observation is mostly right Belladrox, save that not everyone forgot, and fell asleep to the threat. There have always been, and always will be those who know of the reality of the threat, and they will stand before it to defend even those who are unwilling to see.

You're also mistaken about something else... Humanity didn't intentionally turn the monsters and threats into legends and myths, nor did it happen right away.

When your grandfather tells you stories of things that happened when he was very young, and you grow up never seeing a single instance of it...well, you might relate the stories to your children as bedtime stories, the kind of bedtime stories they told in the Dark and Middle Ages, to scare children into subservience, but you're probably less likely to believe them, yourself. When your father tells you stories of things that supposedly happened when your grandfather was very young, and you grow up and live a long life without ever seeing anything to prove it happened...

You get the idea.

It wasn't humanity's fault that it happened, though I will agree with Sasha; some people can't handle the truth of a mundane life as it is... I, for one, am happier without them knowing the truth of what we do.

Then tell me, why was it that all throughout the Middle and Dark Ages did people live in constant fear of things they were superstitious about, ranging from being afraid of actual paranormal creatures, spirits, goblins and other faerie, etc, to being afraid of the overly ridiculous, such as that bad things would happen to you for spilling salt, unless you threw it over your shoulder?

People didn't truly stop believing. Humanity was an overly superstitious lot for an incredibly long period of time. In some parts of the world, they still are. Perhaps while you were watching humanity from an ivory tower while imprisoned in another dimension, you just failed to notice that fact...

If we'd truly forgotten and ignored the histories that contained tidbits like yourself, none of that would've been true, and if there were a Lazlo Society today, it would've existed under different circumstances.

Your question is easily answered druid. You tried to forget about us on a concious level, but subconciously, your fear of the darkness, or really the unknown, remained. You transubtantiated this fear into silly superstitions that helped explain the unknown.

People didn't truly stop believing.

Perhaps, but there is a difference in believeing and knowing.

No the world at large has no clue that monsters are real Hannah. As a few have already stated there are even those that if you did give them proof they still wouldn't believe, or would react very baddly.

Yes this is one of those moments.
We represent a minority, compared to the rest of the world, and many would think we are insane because of the fact we believe that monsters are real.
As has been talked about before the rest of the world just doesn't want to accept the idea.
Mostly that is because it would utterly destroy their world view, and they just couldn't handle the idea.

Yeah, Ron, something tells me you need to find a way to socialize her before that.

Agreed. Hey, does the Zoo have a volunteer program for people Hannah's age? Might be a good idea.

I'm not just another pretty face you know

That's more like it....


HEY!

Some people are not capable of dealing with the mundane horrors of our society, I do not think it would be wise to introduce them to the more supernatural of horrors. Fortunately, these are the ones that for the most part disbelieve the hardest.

Let simple men stay simple men, pleased by simple things, going about simple lives, with simple concerns.

Over my career, I have always tried to leave the simple folk their simple lives.

Way I see it lots of these things are like dogs smellin fear, they go after the source of fear. Might be why so few people have just one encounter and why they normally get worse an worse, the meet a monter, they start to be afraid of monsters, more monsters come to feed on that fear.


Why would anyone want to condemn another person to dealing with all this?

Thomas Sheldon wrote:Why would anyone want to condemn another person to dealing with all this?

Because ignorance isn't bliss. Ignorance, worse than making you think there's a monster under the bed, blinds you to the one that's really hiding in the closet.

Because ignorance isn't bliss.

Now try telling the rest of humanity that. They'll probably burn you at the stake.

I hate like hell to have to agree with the brain-turd, but he does have a point... So does Sheldon.

However, I still agree mostly with Bert. I just feel that, just like when you show anyone about anything that's dangerous to them, one also has a moral responsibility to teach them how to protect themselves from it.

I know we don't have the time to teach everyone everything, but if each of us reaches and educates just one person, they will warn and educate their loved ones, who will warn and educate their friends, and so on... It wouldn't be anywhere near as fast or easy as I just made it sound, but eventually, it would work. Look at Zack and Logos!

I believe my own eyes
Now I've come to the end
All my patience is gone
When I'm doubtful I tend
to believe my own eyes

-pete townsend, "I believe my own eyes"