

I don’t get it with the body either. No we are not insane as a species and if only because insanity is defined on what we as collective see as normal. But what is “deep history”? And people don’t get send to a doctor just because they believe in fairytales, at least where I live.
Humans seem to have an inert need to have answers and guessing one seems to be better than “I don’t know” for many.



Then there would still be the possibility for someone to take off the glasses.
Or invent spectrometers.
Or make others curious.
I’d claim that our issue is too much belief and not a lack thereof. Beliefs remove the potential for excourse y for discussions and for admission of being wrong. Believing is the act of removing an item from analysis, from critique and in its final form from thinking about it.
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding you - if that’s the case please apologize.