People often learn through the study of Philosophy that they have been holding beliefs about themselves and about the world that are often times inconsistent or even outright contradictory to one another.
As the people have learned that through the study of the philosophy that the holding the beliefs about themselves and that change of the time has created an inconsistent belief that they need to change and or even outreach the of contractidactroy ones. And holds the belief that the world is developing at the in-consistent rates and thus contracting the reality and the state of being.