chp3: expand why genuine vision inadequate to explain apocalyptic genre with example

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 Why might John have used this genre? While it is perfectly plausible that John
 had a genuine visionary experience [@visions-in-apocalyptic-handbook, pp.
-115-116], this would still not explain why he chose to publish an account of his
-experience using the apocalyptic genre. One reason may be that John inhabited,
-as Leonard Thompson described it, a 'cognitive minority' [@thompson-revelation].
+115-116], this would still not explain why he chose to publish an account of
+his experience using the apocalyptic genre. If a typical Western middle-class
+person were to have a visionary experience today, they might choose to find a
+more scientifically respectable framing before sharing their insights with
+others. One reason that John used the apocalyptic genre may be that John
+inhabited, as Leonard Thompson described it, a 'cognitive minority' [@thompson-revelation].
 
 Early Christian communities led distinctive lives on the basis of exclusive
 sources of knowledge: apostolic authority, prophecy, eyewitness testimony,