Because of this philosophic sensitivity, yokel humans tend to avoid philosophic discussions. Yokels are ignorant about where life came from, where it is going and why. They are thus terrified by their mortality. Thus the irritation and panic when this basic hypocrisy is threatened by a scientific discussion about life-origin and life destination. Time magazine 2.
Yokels are robot-slaves to DNA .
They blindly labor to perpetuate the species, to breed, to establish domestic arrangements for rearing young and to transmit cultural survival patterns. Any discussion which threatens to expose or question this robothood is extremely painful. The larval cannot tolerate the insight into uneasy areas of uncertainty. Expression and inhibition of sexual behavior is charged with terror , because orgasm and sperm-egg transfer must be domesticated to provide for stable child rearing. Reactions to these topics are unpredictable, depending on the intimacy and safety of the situation.