I think Crichton was only half right. The value is not in the edited content, it's in having a single narrative going through society. Even if that narrative is

I think Crichton was only half right. The value is not in the edited content, it's in having a single narrative going through society. Even if that narrative is partially wrong. I feel like society is in the midst of restructuring itself to the reality that there will never be a single narrative again. And I think that's ok because we're reverting back, societally, to a time before mass media. So we know it's possible for societies to function without a single overarching narrative. (Not to go too far off, but the same thing seems to be coming as a result of deep fakes -- reverting to a time where 1st person accounts from a reputable person were the only reliable evidence. [Where reputation was something of an organic page rank algorithm.])