Regardless of one’s own knowledge and imagination about myriad human possibilities, there is little one can do for others who are hopelessly self-mired, self-limited and mindlessly limiting of others, let alone their own possibilities.
It is hard to live a life in the stars when one’s prevailing modes are fear, conventionality, self-denial, and self-delusion about one’s self, one’s roles, larger purposes and meanings, true self-actualization, and real, authentic freedom. (The hazards of living unnecessarily small and in self-made manacles.)