This isn ' t OP <| sep |> I ' m not a scientist , but the way I see it , the truth is too frightening . We grow up completely protected from the horrible and weird truths about this world and our reality , in fact our entire way of life is built around ignoring them . So when they suddenly loom in front of us , we instinctively pretend they don ' t exist . All human culture up to this point has been grounded in denial . When we make each other suffer it ' s because we ' re denying the fact that it ' s hideous and wrong . All the stories we have told ourselves to justify our strange and arbitrary ways of behaving have just been coping strategies to deny how ignorant we are and how fucked this shit is . We ' re a species that is very bad at living in the real world , and that ' s looking increasingly like an evolutionary disadvantage that will smack us down eventually . Facing the truth means coping with all that horror . And it ' s a difficult , often emotionally destabilising experience that many would rather avoid . But it ' s also a richer human existence .