The More You Know (Or The More You Think You Know), The More Complicated Life Gets.

 If we didn't know what a virus was.  In 1918, the life-form we call the "virus", was not something that most (or all) doctors were aware of.  And how it causes dis-ease in humans by catalyzing cells to produce chemicals that poison vital organs, among them, the lungs, sense organs and the brain.  [Is this covered in 5th or 6th grade biology?]

How do individual thoughts and actions combine and convert themselves into the news.  One person can make a difference (meme), but mostly not.  If one person seems to make a difference, what we are really seeing is the hopes and dreams of many people being summarized and expressed by that one person ... populism.,

We as a species or civilization ... collectively, know a lot of stuff.  We know about stuff smaller and more abstract than atoms, and which play a material role in out lives.  We can build drugs and create animals and almost create life.  As a civilization.  As individuals, we are pretty ignorant of the achievements of us.  Not necessarily to cast aspersions on ourselves, it is just that there is so much to know.  So much that we as a civilization know, that one person can master only a small portion of it.  

But at the same time, all of it affects our lives.  Global heating, which affects the Gulf Stream, which affects the location of fish stocks, which affects the fishing fleet's catch, which affects the price of fish in the markets, which affects the cost of a McDonalds's Fillet o'Fish, which affects the volume of sales, which affects staffing and store hours, which affects employment, which affects taxes, which ....

It's cause and effect, all the way down.

Wouldn't it be easier if we just reacted to things, like a herd of wildebeaste?

Or even that the gods, or God, did it?  To which we responded as if placating or manipulating ourselves?

The religion of Science suggests that we might be able to figure it out some day.