This "New Dark Ages" is the antithesis of the first one when our ignorance blinded us. Now it's our enlightening based on the wrong premise of objectivity, that is dazzling us.
RE: The "observer effect," which we cannot understand since everything we know is affected by our knowledge. As the anomalies of the planets were caused by our belief that we were fixed at the center of the universe.
As it was the mass of the Earth that prevented us from perceiving our motion, now, it is the mass of knowledge accumulated on the fall premise of objectivity that prevents us from perceiving ourselves as anomalies of Evolution.