Because Lord Wilmore thinks that if you can't feel you're being pulled, then a force isn't being applied to you.
I haven't decided whether I should give him a crash course in Physics101 just yet or not.
I did not say or imply any such thing. Perhaps what's in order is not a crash course in Physics101 for me, but rather a crash course in reading comprehension for you.
Of course you didn't imply it since you don't know that you're wrong. And no, it's definitely the crash course for you.
When we're in a car and it starts to accelerate, we feel our backs pushing into the seat. In fact, we can feel our whole body (even our eyes) pushing back. This is because the contact force is acting on our backs and this create a series of Newton pairs (seat pushes one way, back pushes other way - eye sockets push one way, eyes push other way).
This is the scenario you're thinking of and your claim is that since we don't feel such an effect, then gravity cannot be real. This is wrong.
Gravity doesn't behave in the same manner. It doesn't act like a propulsion system attached to our feet or head or whichever other body part you wish. It acts
everywhere. Our entire body - every last atom - is accelerated at the same rate, so there is no strain on any parts of our body as we fall, thus, we don't feel anything. If we were very tall with respect to the Earth's size however, then our feet would feel a larger acceleration than our head (since our head is so much further from the centre of the Earth) and in this case, our body would feel like it's stretching apart slightly.
If you want an example of this phenomenon, consider a magnet being succumb to a strong magnetic field. If the magnet is broken into 2 pieces and then stuck together with some low-grade glue, the pieces won't tear apart if the magnet is accelerated in a controlled manner. Now if we were to replace one of the pieces of the magnet with something that isn't magnetic, then both pieces will tear apart because only the magnet will be accelerated while the other won't be, so there will exist a Newton pair between them that has a non-zero force.
/crash course physics101