It seems too often as a society are in denial about how our world works. Our modern, technocratic society often denies us experience and knowledge about how things work. It often covers and hides the evil that lurks in our world.

It is amazing how much of society is devoted to hiding the truths that make up our society. We cover buildings with complicated siding and paint, to deny their function. We build great landfills, farms, and energy producers far away so we don’t have to see or think about them.

I’m sure insiders would argue that technology or morals demand that how our world work be hidden. They will say that we outsiders don’t really understand how things work, and that our misunderstandings of the inside will lead to misguided policy.

We should always be asking how does something work. We should be looking behind the wallboard, and questioning and pushing the insiders to do better. We should try to step out of our comfortable world, and try to do better.