This is the take I don’t see enough and it’s blisteringly obvious to me and it’s unclear why that it’s not more obvious.

The amount of things people understand about the world is effectively zero, yet they rely on them all the time.

There was a time where people did not get on airplanes because they did not understand them and they did not think that they were safe. Now it’s mundane

I think the answer is that it’s all about the rate of change

Most people cannot understand how things are changing, and even if they don’t understand the changes themselves they do what others around them do and then just build their own model of stability around that.

If the rules of society flip every couple of years then there’s no stable baseline that people can get used to and they all freak because there’s nothing keeping their environment stable