As I said
I'm not expecting anyone to compare that simchas Torah with the current situation. What I am asking is to take one's current knowledge, attitudes and feelings and imagine themselves back then and there, and try to be honest as to what they would hold/feel/do back then.
one good way to measure;
When each person's own local rabbonim, rebbes and leaders did give guidance, did they accept them with simplicity? Or start calculating כוונה פנימית, that The rabbi really meant otherwise "if he meant what he said then he would..." (this being the actual example in the reshima)
Likewise, arguments in the basis of global economy, as well as personal comfort, logical and accurate as they may be, are products of sechel and of self, not of emunah peshuta