Will Self, in his wonderful novel _The Quantity Theory of Insanity_, proposes that the total amount of insanity is fixed, and when someone becomes more sane som

Will Self, in his wonderful novel _The Quantity Theory of Insanity_, proposes that the total amount of insanity is fixed, and when someone becomes more sane someone else has to become less sane. As previous forms of unsubstantiated belief become harder to sustain due to cameraphones (think Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, Jesus working at a Burger King in Wichita), perhaps that psychic energy has to go somewhere else. Thus, maybe it'd be good for society to help restore people's belief in harmless bullshit (the Loch Ness monster legend was at most responsible for a few drownings) instead of the extremely harmful bullshit that we've seen so much of recently. Perhaps generative image models can solve our epistemic crisis by inserting monsters, fairies, or gods into 0.001% of smartphone pictures.