Stupid people will always find simple things difficult. I recognise that there are stupid people, I just want nothing to do with them. I don't believe that honesty leads to madness. I don't believe we need delusions to stay sane. I don't believe the truth is strewn with booby-traps, waiting to swallow up anyone who thinks too much.
People are the very opposite.
There's nothing to which we'll devote more time, and energy, and cunning, than burying the truth. Once people ceased to understand how the machines around them actually functioned, the world they inhabited began to dissolve into an incomprehensible dreamscape. Technology moved beyond control, beyond discussion, evoking only worship or loathing, dependence or alienation. But then again, you know how people talk. A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.