It’s so interesting to get born into a civilization and to have this sense of like, knowing shit. Like, that’s a big part of being alive right now, is like, we all think we’re so fucking, we think we know everything because you can Google it. And you just think even if you don’t know, you think the answer is out there somewhere. And then you live in this crazy world where you think everything’s been figured out. We’re at the cutting edge.
Like, even though throughout history doctors have, in a lot of ways been consistently wrong. You know what I mean? Like the whole bleeding and leeching and before that whatever the weird medieval ways people would treat disease. You know? Like take a rag of horse piss and wrap it around their head and put them above a fire for 3 days. It will cure their pox! And everyone believes in them, like, “Oh yeah, that will work!”
But now we’re like, “No, no, no. Now we figured out medical technology for sure. Like, for we 100% know everything about the way the human body works.” Which is why when you go into a doctor and depending on who the doctor is you mention some other possible therapy, they’ll laugh you out of the room. They’re like, “Get the fuck out of here. That’s quackery.” And sometimes they’re right, but sometimes they’re probably wrong.
But my point is, it’s just funny because you have to live in a world where you are surrounded by people who think, in one way, are really leaning into the idea that we’ve all kind of worked out the thing. We’ve figured out humanity. We’ve figured out the planet. We know what the climate is. We know what medical science is and how the body works. We understand germs, viruses, diseases, and history. We fucking know how the pyramids were built. And please stop saying aliens did it. It was people taking it from quarries. We’ve figured it out. You don’t need to look into that anymore. Because we figured it out. When really we haven’t figured out much of anything. Probably what’s really going on is so astounding that if you actually saw what it was, you might die. You might just blip out of reality or cease to exist it’s so wild.
Duncan Trussell