Eventually all things are known. And few matter. - Gore Vidal

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

Always beware of the fact, that the only thing hindering an all out revolution is your fear of losing the scraps they throw at you. — Twitter post, July 29, 2012

The size of the population of course has much to do with this collective ignorance. When Aristophanes made a satiric point, he could be confident that his audience would appreciate his slyest nuance because in a small community each citizen was bound to share with his fellows a certain amount of general information, literary, religious, and political. National units today are too large and, in America at least, education is too bland to hope for much change.