Well, I wouldn't try to talk you out of anything you wrote. I suspect you've done a more than sufficient job of firmly convincing yourself. What can be added to that which is already full?

The only thing I would mention is that I have come to understand that people feel comfortable when they believe they understand the world around them and how it works. It is intensely discomforting to allow into their psyche the thought that forces and factors are at work beyond those they have taken into consideration, beyond their present level of comprehension, or even exceeding their ability to imagine.

In these exceedingly uncertain times, people desperately want to feel comfortable, and thus we find engendered a form of "arrested development".