Young minds move so fast. It isn’t until you’re a bit older and wiser that you begin to take notice of the subtle and seemingly simple aspects of nature and humanity. The world becomes truly a spectacle once you gain this appreciation.
UPDATE 2014-03-16: Another way to explain this might be to imagine that young minds only absorb data that is obvious. They see the spikes in the spectrum but ignore or filter out the troughs. As we get older we become more interested in the troughs because that’s where all the really interesting data lies. And consequently, depending on how interested you really are, this is where enlightenment would lie as well. It just depends how deep you go and how many troughs you explore.