At least that's how it started out... then the people who reached out and touched on these truths decided that the results were not only horrible, apocolyptic even, but that they were unnacceptable.
So, they held it from those with no common sense. The next few generations came along, and being suspected of being to juvenile in their ways to handle the truths, were not filled in why they were holding these things away from certain people. So they held it away from everyone. And when people need to be governed, they thought up new and interesting ways to rule them, all based on the ways they knew: how to hold people from the truth.
thus we have religions, societies, governments, and even entire cultures springing up everywhere, all out of the need to not know, all for the wrong reasons.
and suddenly, you notice there is something else in this tunnel...
It's right on your heels...
What does your instinct tell you do in this situation?
Run for light,
Face this beast and fight for your life,
or Should you just give up, call it a journey, and die.