Not sure if you intended this, but reading your 'absurd theory' - I automatically read a parallel story that basically replaced engineer with 'big news portal'

Not sure if you intended this, but reading your 'absurd theory' - I automatically read a parallel story that basically replaced engineer with 'big news portal' - it's not just engineers, but reporters, editors, and algorithms that spew what is expected to be the 'right way' - 'politically correct' is another term that I think needs an update to 'socially acceptable to my upper tier peers'... This disconnect was seen in the reporting up to the last big election, and yet it's still seen by the 'average joes' who are bombarded with the flood of not-so'fake'-news, as much as it's really one sided so much that it seems desperate.. desperate to want truth a certain way or to convince others that things could be a utopia if they just understood what the elites know is right around their ivory towers / neighborhoods. If you look at the yahoo homepage, comcast home page, similar news aggregators the past few days, does it seem that there is a diverse group of editors offering different viewpoints or does it seem more like a tight niche group who really wants the world to see things a certain way, no matter how 80% of the country has to see reality different, no matter how they might like it to be. Maybe it's just me, anyhow your absurd theory added another dimension to this for me.. to consider that engineers are also buying into, or have bought into the gated communities and want the rest of the world to accept how they want things. So the upper class has even more concentrated power by getting the engineers to be part of their illusion it seems. I've also been seeing posts by people who say even though their team raises concerns about the way corporation X is deciding to do things, ultimately it's their bosses (ultra wealthy) pushing the decisions to do Y... so for as long as the engineers accept the higher class handouts, follow the group think, and help the ivory tower messaging, they can stay in the bubble valleys and nice coastal facades. dystopian indeed.