Here’s a wild take: the reason the public “can’t handle this stuff” is quite literally because it was kept secret all these years. Imagine if it was all made public right then back in the 40’s – all the future generations would then be born into a world where this is a basic fact.

Just thought it’s something worth noting. There are many things that “the public can’t handle” – the idea of nuclear weapons, the existence of psychedelics, etc. etc. The reason why the public is handling these concepts so well is simply because there was a gradual process of adapting to the truth – whether it’s the potential of immediate annihilation or the potential existence of additional dimensions etc.

Hell, people thought electricity was black magic back in the day. On the first film screening people literally ran out of the room because they thought the projected train is going to run them over. And as with anything, a couple of years later it’s completely normal. If all the information was instantly released we wouldn’t be in this stupid situation. People would just get used to the fact (whatever it is – whether it’s that we simply don’t know, or that we’re stuck in prison planet) and future generations would be born into a world where this is virtually taken for granted. How is an alien revelation more shocking than a breakthrough psychedelic dose, for example? It’s the same sort of ontological shock. Your grasp on reality is shaken on a fundamental level. But the more this conversation is normalized, the more information is made publicly available (rather than kept secret, simply amplifying the general feeling that if it’s secret it’s because the public simply can’t handle it), the more easily people eventually get used to the fact.

This notion is not absurd, but rather stems from a lack of understanding that the public has already been faced with reality shaking prospects and the only way to get past it is to release it and let the people digest. It’s the only way forward.