Life is complicated. It seems now that it's way more complicated than at any time in our past, but I think the truth is more likely that we didn't see it was complicated back then because a lot was shielded from us. We just didn't need to worry about it as kids. Plus, we have the world at our fingertips now and didn't back then. We have access to so much information that it's all but impossible to sift through it all and figure out what can be trusted and what can't. Nobody can keep up.

This is why none of us are masters of everything and we tend to specialize in niches. We want to be told the truth by an authority because we don't have the time to dig into everything ourselves. We want happy fulfilling lives. That means we can't look at everything with our own eyes, we need to be able to trust authorities. The less we can trust what we're being told, the more we have to research ourselves, the less time we're able to spend doing what we love with the people we love, the more miserable and disconnected our lives become.

We need to be told the truth by an authority and we need them to have the integrity to chase the truth and deliver it to us honorably.

It's not that we're not good at looking at the world with our own eyes, it's not that we're not capable, it's that we just don't have the time and we've run out of the energy to do so.