All explanations are cover-ups for ignorance. Regarding the physical world, this is not true. Therein do thought and speech fulfill their basic purpose by the constant proffering of explanations. It is ultimately through such that man is able to rearrange his physical environment to his improved accommodation. But the smallest step into his mentally derived second reality, and all explanations for what is going on there, are out and out cover-ups for ignorance.
A man in need of food would be a fool not to heed explanations of plant cultivation. But he becomes an even greater fool, when he hearkens to any explanation of any non-tangible matter. Explanations of material matters can result in actual and beneficial change, while explanations of intangible affairs can never result in anything substantively meaningful.
Men are not given to offering explanations concerning the physical world without solicitation, whereas everyone is anxious and always prepared to give their explanation of any matter on which hands cannot be laid. (This is why agriculturists are paid more than priests; engineers better than psychologists, least wise in über rational universes).
Explanations of things in the physical world usually cost, while explanations of things in man’s mental/spiritual/cultural world are free as can be. They are in fact forced on you, (if you are not nimble). Notice that normal unlearned men will readily confess their ignorance of material affairs, (mechanics, electronics, physics, farming), but will not admit so regarding god, morality, reality, or metaphysical truth.
When it comes to things which men cannot physically hand to one another – everyone can explain the thing. Everyone in the world has an explanation for it, and no one in the world understands it. (An ordinary, sane mind will thoroughly refute this blanket statement, and immediately identify itself as an exculpatory example.)
J.