Yeah. We love the comfort of "getting it", but most of the easy problems have been solved, and we're only left with the hard ones.

People are pleasure-seekers, not truth-seekers. People demand what they can understand and feel good about, even if wrong. There's plenty of supply too. Radical free speech allows anyone to spread lies for huge financial upside, and we don't have any check on this particular type of weapon which is mass-destroying society.