> the publicity that anyone can get today can create a simulation of normalcy. It seems like it isn't hard for any belief or belief-system to obtain a critical

> the publicity that anyone can get today can create a simulation of normalcy. It seems like it isn't hard for any belief or belief-system to obtain a critical mass. It feels like a paradox: if the threshold for critical mass has fallen, or the number of people required to reach critical mass has grown for every niche? I'm not sure what's going on, but I'm scared. Maybe this is the "old person scared" thing I giggled about when I was a kid watching my grandmother try to make sense of a computer...