I only got this far "24 hours later, only 3 users bothered to comment, the rest likely deafened their ears to resist acknowledging reality."

• Made me feel like not reading the rest of what you had to say, even though I find the topic interesting.
  People not interacting with your post, can be a huge number of things.
  ^ It's highly likely, that your post had the wrong title, and people simply didn't click it at all.
• It's also likely, that it wasn't content worth commenting on?

So many things comes to mind, "closing their eyes to reality", is not one of them.