> Once you remove your socialised biases, it would seem obvious there's something intelligent there worth investigating.
Well, yeah, but it's not my socialised biases, I don't have any about this topic!
And it's not even generally Westerners, a lot of Indians, Chinese, Brazilians and folks from everywhere have the same fear--despite their history (but you know everyone these days is "modern" and skepticism of the Old Wisdom is trendy, sadly). Some of that fear, sure, is psyops, but less than you think. Probably more than half is simply the terror that our Human Myth is wrong. Ryan Graves (post author) said it well in a podcast (KONCRETE, I think). Paraphrasing:
Most people don't have the ability to integrate this information into their reality and continue their day to day life immediately. It would require longer contemplation. So instead of doing that, they just block themselves from seeing it.
Once you remove your socialised biases, it would seem obvious there's something intelligent there worth investigating.