Exactly, it's giving me a headache! Saw one that said Charlie Kirk was still alive! Any of it is possible, but I feel like I’m being dragged down too many rabbit holes against my will. And I LIKE rabbit holes, it’s just getting excessive now, and I’m feeling manipulated.
And yes, people need to have something more than allegiance to ideology and tribe.
My media consumption tends center-left, but I occasionally binge on far-right and libertarian sources, and then I sort of end up in this Murky Middle, where each side sounded accurate and earnest, but internally conflicted and at odds with each other.
Which is probably the true state of things. Humans are incredibly complex.
It's an odd time, to be classically liberal.
Also, each side lies habitually, even when lying is pointless, and often without even noticing themselves that they are doing it.
It's not necessarily all intentional. I think there's a mental trap in assuming nothing is a conspiracy, and in assuming that everything is a conspiracy. There's probably mostly an organic tendency or trajectory within a group, with some targeted nudging, and everyone sort of automatically pays into it and tries to one-up each other, and it quickly gets ugly and crazy.
