Standing at a height that was never meant for you was not a romantic thing.
People who had not adapted to the pressure of such heights often could not endure it. They would suffer from "fear of heights."
What they feared was not necessarily the distance from the ground to where they stood. It could also be the height from beneath their feet all the way to the horizon!
If a frog had never leaped out of its well, then to it, the world was as simple as that.
But after crawling out of the well, its first thought and action probably would not be to explore the world, as fairy tales claimed.
Instead, it would immediately turn around and jump back into the well.
There were many examples like this.
People who believed in gods might not dare to meet a true god, and those who sought immortality might not truly be able to live forever.
When arrogant people entered a broader environment, they were often better than others at realizing their own insignificance and developing fear.
Recently, there had been signs that the extraterrestrial craze was making a comeback.
The development of film technology had caused some "special-effects movies" to start appearing on screens. Given the viewing abilities of people in this era, they might not be able to distinguish the special effects in those films or understand what was real and what was fake.
It was like pointing out the flaws in the terribly awkward special effects from twenty years ago while your grandparents looked at you as if you were an idiot and praised you for being so damn clever! Every declining era had once been incomparably glorious! The birth of special-effects movies had unexpectedly made a film related to aliens popular, and the Production Company