Revelation space is foreshortened by the cumulative knowledge of humanity, in some sort of Jungian collective unconscious imbued into us by cultural exposure. Thus, we now search for revelation in unaccommodating places and, finding nothing, create our own invalid territories of epiphany, where we discover the fraudulence of our own minds. Anti-vaxxers and global climate change deniers are born here, as is the “well, actually” bro.

There is no escape from this constraint, as the constraint itself is freedom from ignorance — retreating from that is only to discover ignorance again and revel in the regression. The conflict, though, still remains and the psyche is never unburdened and one can never return to the time of unknowing.