Blind Faith in a Conneticut Yankee

The last few chapters in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" have brought up what are in my opinion several interesting points. First there is the matter of how the people of that time period unquestionably believed anything they were told. When the members of the court heard a new messenger come and give them a quest they unquestionably believe it and act on it with without even trying to verify that its was the truth first. When the new magician came to the monastery after the well was repaired and started telling his fortunes, the pilgrims immediately believed him even when a modern person would have tried to question it like the main character did. And when the Hank Morgan and Sandy finally found the castle that they were looking for and it turned out to be a pigsty, Sandy said "And how strange is this marvel, and how awful—that to the one perception it is enchanted and dight in a base and shameful aspect; yet to the perception of the other it is not enchanted, hath suffered no change" even though she must have seen them as pigs too, she insisted and probably actually believed that she still saw the ladies as not being enchanted. What purpose would Twain have for putting this characteristic into the medieval characters. Most likely it was a device to emphasize how people who have been trained since birth in one way of thinking are completely closed to any other views. Even to the point where they will disbelieve the evidence of their own eyes. Since it was implied that the reason they were this was because of the feudal system and the efforts of the nobles to keep the peasants for thinking for themselves, this characteristic was probably also one of Twain's techniques to cast a negative light on the feudal system in favor of some form of republic. Another interesting question is how similar to this the readers of Twain's period or even modern readers are. Of course any reader of either of those periods would probably be offended by any such comparison, and would believe themselves to be beyond that level of blind acceptance, but are there others beliefs or reactions that are so fundamental to them that they don't even realize they're there? And even if there were how would could they be discovered by the modern reader, by definition they would be invisible to the person who had them. So only an outsider would be able to see them, and an outsider probably wouldn't be believed. This is the problem Morgan faces. He even says so in chapter 11 "but as I was the only person in the kingdom afflicted with such impious and criminal opinions, I recognized that it would be good wisdom to keep quiet about this matter, too, if I did not wish to be suddenly shunned and forsaken by everybody as a madman." (On a side note when they brought the pigs to the castle Morgan assumed that Sandy knew the owner of the castle, but as it turned out that was not the case. Was this utter acceptance by the servants and Sandy that a stranger could just walk in and make themselves at home part of their blind acceptance of all things they were told or somethings else. And what happened to the pigs when Morgan and Sandy left?)