Large topic that I can't do much justice to in an HN comment, but the prophet/town-crier on this one seems like Ian McGilchrist: https://www.amazon.com/Master-

Large topic that I can't do much justice to in an HN comment, but the prophet/town-crier on this one seems like Ian McGilchrist: https://www.amazon.com/Master-His-Emissary-Divided-Western-ebook/dp/B07NS35S76 https://www.amazon.com/Master-His-Emissary-Divided-Western-e... I think modern society is in the bad attractor field of the left-hemisphere mode of thought (as opposed to the right-hemisphere attractor field.) You see a fragmented reality unaffected by evidence, fragments out of context becoming menacing and leading to paranoia, people operating in self-contained virtual worlds based on axioms simplified to the point of falsity, positive feedback loops where exposure makes you want more, rather than negative feedback loops where you get satiated.