What convinces people, in the modern world?
The modern world is full of contradictory and confusing communications; on the other hand there is a denial of the reality and relevance of metaphysical assumptions concerning the nature of reality - so this confusion (being based on conflicting assumptions) is intractable.
Lacking clarity, modern people are - in practice - convinced by propaganda and power; that is by emotional manipulation and by fear.
This makes cowards of us all - because we lack confidence in anything; lacking confidence we lack courage.
To be courageous we need to be convinced - and if we lack courage we will lack all virtue, because we will be slaves of expediency...
What, then, would or could convince modern people they are wrong - in a world where propaganda and power are controlled by an evil Establishment?
Explanation does not work; because explanation depends on the already-existing framework of assumptions, which are incoherent.
Evidence does not work; for the same reason - what counts as 'evidence' is dependent on the incoherent explanatory framework...
The only answer I can think of is that people can only be convinced when they discover reality for themselves; in such a way that this discovery is personally compelling.
To do this, people will need to do what it takes. Each individual must discover reality for himself; in whatever way he personally find so convincing as to serve as the basis for courage.
Otherwise he will remain what he is: a coward, a dupe of propaganda, a slave of fear.
