I've been trying to point out an observation to somebody.
I know this observation is something that anybody can see in front of their own faces.
If only they were to pay attention.
Not to pay attention to the observation in question, but to simply start to pay attention, at all, is the real fundamental challenge for them.
The problem is not convincing somebody to observe this thing in question is happening. It is that people find it so hard to pay attention, at all.
And if you cannot pay attention, just for a short time, all you will have is your beliefs. You will be a 'religious person'. Facts will be useless for you in finding understanding.
This is almost certainly because that person is possessed by some kind of cult, worldview or all-encompassing belief system which helps them to feel cosy and virtuous about themself - an easy escape. These beliefs fully block them from being able to pay attention - their belief system is leading their thought entirely.
Anything which presents an opportunity of change where they start to pay attention more to the attention than to the belief system will be immediately blocked out of sight by the belief system. This is the power of beliefs, which a 'religious person' is self-enslaved by.
Thought creates an image of the world, then thought worships the image it just created. The image being the belief system which thought created.
This means they will never be able to understand an alternative view of the world even if they're trying very hard or consider themselves exceptionally open-minded people, proud red pill takers or down the rabbit hole. And all their actions will be devoted to things that are not actually happening.
If they are not paying attention, they simply will not be able to see it. And will think the observation you are pointing at is just a conspiracy theory, your madness or some way of politically trying to undermine them in a kind of personal attack. All they can see is the image which thought created and now worships.
Paying attention is fundamental. If you cannot pay attention, you will not be in control of thought and it will be getting led unconsciously by this image, this belief system, whatever that may be.
Paying attention is an extremely hard thing for anyone to do. It cannot be taught. You can't earn it. You can't buy it and you don't deserve to be able to do it. You have no right to be able to pay attention. You have to try really hard even if you've started to pay attention to continue to pay attention.
To pay attention you have to really want to do it more than anything else. And for most people in the modern world, that is too much evidently.