How hard is it to interpret reality?

• 
  
• "I've got electric light. And I've got second sight. I've got amazing powers of observation."
• Nobody Home, Pink Floyd

It may seem convenient to some to make reality seem extremely complicated.

That is actually very easy to achieve for those in power.

Say this and that about economy using impenetrable jargon and people will never grasp that well, basically "economy" is a scam and we have been collectively and historically duped into getting the rich ever richer.

Sell the great stage of human affairs as a moral issue. Narratives of good vs. evil have always been at the root of military aggression. Despite being ridiculed in logic theory, this kind of perspective never lost its appeal, since it leads to hate, that is such a manipulative tool that it seems needless to delve further. Here it seems that reality is being made less complex, and that is true in a sense. But actually introducing an external agency called "evil" complexifies unnecessarily, and dishonestly, a simple perspective of contending powers. It is a mystified, diversionist narrative even if it's simplist.

These are but examples of a pattern. Make things look abstruse and have people wondering what's the mystery behind these inexplicable events. That's basically keeping people in awe over the fact that they are kept in awe so the system might work.

When one is concerned about not being misled, that is apparently all that is required do "escape Plato's Cavern", as it were. It is surprisingly simple to share Roger Water's "amazing powers of observation": it starts by not buying the most readily available lies. Obviously, active seeking of reliable information is necessary for any interpretation of phenomena; nevertheless, the proverbial wisdom of the countryman, or Rousseau's concept of "the good savage man", show that being detached from the insanity we call civilized life, realizing life is simple and living accordingly, might suffice regardless of rational endeavors to explain the world.

We need not jettison our reason and go naked into the forest (that's dangerous). But it is possible to escape this predicament in which our rational framework is always seeking solutions for problems our rational framework has created. Instrumental reason in itself is neutral, but in a society that everything is subordinated to amassing profit and power, that instrumental reason should be so comes to no surprise. Establishing a society on egalitarian principles at the same time depends upon and is a condition for the development of a new awareness, in which that instrumental reason will reach so far in explaining the universe, life and society, collapsing all fields of knowledge into one, that the inevitable conclusion must be the same: life is simple and we have been complicating it with taboos and mystifications that serve the same system in which very few exert power to to keep and gain more power. And of course, we can learn a lot from those living heirs of the neolithic, the south-american tribes: we could be cyber-natives.